Reflections on the Path of Landscape Heritage Reuse and Urban Ecological Restoration under the Resilience Concept
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Resilience; landscape heritage; adaptive reuse; urban ecological restoration; green infrastructure; historic urban landscape.Abstract
How to guide landscape heritage reuse and urban ecological restoration with the concept of resilience: A study. Instead of providing new empirical data, it collects existing research on socioecological resilience, historic urban landscapes, green infrastructure and circular regeneration to propose a conceptual system for heritage-led ecological restoration. First, resilience thinking and its application to cities as complex social-ecological-technical systems are introduced; then, how international instruments such as the UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and culture-based urban resilience agendas have redefined landscape heritage as a dynamic resource is explored. Based on landscape ecology and the concept of the circular economy, this paper studies how adaptive reuse of landscape heritage sites, such as old parks and cultural routes, as well as industrial and rural heritage areas, can promote biodiversity, connectivity, ecosystem services and community identity. Resilience-oriented reuse should be achieved through integrated planning of heritage conservation, ecological restoration and urban development, and nature-based and hybrid infrastructure solutions are practically feasible, reducing excessive reliance on heritage as a single remedy. The paper concludes by putting forward governance and design rules that can support careful, context-sensitive reuse of landscape heritage in the context of urban ecological restoration.
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