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

Chen Yang, Jeannie Sim and Gillian Lawson

Landscape Research, 2016, vol. 41, issue 1, 95-112

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2015.1041468

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