CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE IN MODERN LANDSCAPE DESIGN: CONSERVING HERITAGE IN CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

As a vestige of the transition from the urban boundaries to the natural environment, the historic urban countryside has heritage importance due to the city's geographical and temporal history. Unfortunately, their cultural landscape legacy is slowly vanishing due to the rising tensions between urban building and preservation of cultural landscapes brought about by recurrent social revolutions. This research examines Shanghai's Sheshan Urban Countryside Historic District and classifies the cultural landscape's epochs—Emergence, Development and Exploration, Diversity and Prosperity, Turbulence and Change, and Stability and Precipitation—according to the layers of history. This study examines the development of Sheshan's cultural landscape heritage layers through the use of Historic Urban Landscape Historic Land use Assessment (HUL) and Historical Landscape Assessment (HLA), with the goal of identifying the properties and values of these layers. According to the research, there are four distinct stratigraphic connections seen in Jiufeng Sheshan's cultural landscape heritage: accretion, juxtaposition, overlay, and decline. Based on these results, the superposition of various stratigraphic patterns seems to be an evolutionary trait that occurs continuously. In addition, the cultural landscape strata of Jiufeng Sheshan have shown a faster development rate in the heritage value throughout the contemporary time. In contrast to literati gardens and Buddhist artifacts, contemporary religious and scientific structures have a better chance of surviving intact. Living conservation and renewal of landscape heritage must be intervened upon in light of the cultural landscape heritage's knowledge and value evaluation. This necessitates the formulation of a plan for the preservation and revitalization of cultural landscape heritage, one that ties together the dispersed cultural artifacts and adheres to the principle of historical stratification. This research may be used as a guide for the organic revitalization of rural and urban regions as well as for the preservation and transmission of cultural landscape heritage in rural and urban historical districts.