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Deciphering Historic Landscapes: A Case Study of Slender West Lake in Yangzhou, China

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  • Chen Yang
  • Jeannie Sim
  • Gillian Lawson

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Historic landscapes today are changing gradually or abruptly, and the abrupt changes have caused the loss of much historic information. How to identify and protect the significant evidence of dynamic landscapes is a question that must be answered by each cultural community. This article establishes a decipherment process—an operational guide for landscape assessment in China. This is a methodology using European methods integrated with traditional Chinese ways of landscape appreciation, providing an effective approach to translate the cultural landscape framework into the conservation inventory. Using Slender West Lake as a case study, the decipherment process has expanded the existing landscape investigation theory using the factor of artistic conception to integrate intangible values into the assessment process. It has also established a unit-based method to classify and represent historic landscapes.

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  • Chen Yang & Jeannie Sim & Gillian Lawson, 2016. "Deciphering Historic Landscapes: A Case Study of Slender West Lake in Yangzhou, China," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 95-112, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:41:y:2016:i:1:p:95-112
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2015.1041468
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    1. Ding He & Wenting Chen & Jie Zhang, 2024. "Integrating Heritage and Environment: Characterization of Cultural Landscape in Beijing Great Wall Heritage Area," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-32, April.
    2. Dorota Sikora & Małgorzata Kaczyńska, 2022. "The Cultural Ecosystem Services as an Element Supporting Manor Landscape Protection," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-33, June.

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