Co-benefits of Heritage Protection and Urban Planning

Dear Colleagues,

Heritage is a precious non-renewable resource with rich historical, scientific, artistic, social, and cultural values. The acceleration of urbanization undoubtedly provides a rare opportunity for heritage protection and utilization. Responding to practical needs, relevant studies have been conducted. The combination of heritage protection and urban planning, not only improves the cultural appeal of the city but also solves the problem faced by heritage renewal. The mutually beneficial relationship between heritage protection and urban planning has established itself as one of the most vibrant fields of human geography study today.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights into the mutual promotion of heritage conservation and urban sustainable development. We widely invite the submission of articles that foster discussion on the natural and cultural heritage reuse and utilization in the context of urban geographical dimensions.  Conceptual or theoretical constructs, original quantitative and qualitative research, local, regional, and international case studies, and research focusing on heritage planning, products, and services, stakeholders, as well as exploring urban heritage systems can be addressed.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Digital technologies in urban heritage management;
• Urban heritage reuse and planning;
• Urban regeneration;
• Smart cities and cultural sustainability;
• Policies and governance of urban regeneration;
• Case studies of urban heritage utilization.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Prof. Dr. Jiaming Liu
Prof. Dr. Linsheng Zhong
Dr. Chung Shing (Johnson) Chan
Dr. Shuying Zhang
Guest Editors

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• urban heritage
• urban regeneration
• stakeholders
• policy
• protection of urban heritage
• heritage tourism