Urban and Regional Planning and Sustainable Cultural Tourism
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 9646
Special Issue Editor
Interests: history of architecture; urbanism and planning; global commodity flows and their impact on the built environment in cities and landscapes; port cities; petroleumscapes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has set into motion lifestyle changes that have hit cities and cultural heritage sites around the world hard. Tourism has largely stopped, and musea and world heritage sites have been closed down. Many historic cities, and their hotels, shops, and cultural institutions, are empty as cruises have been canceled, planes grounded, and tourists unable and unwilling to travel. Although there is a yearning to go back to the way things were before the pandemic, there is also an acknowledgment that the current situation holds opportunities for developing new urban planning strategies, including for sustainable development and sustainable cultural tourism practices that are needed in light of climate change. Climate change mitigation requires sustainable development, circular practices, and the use of traditional building materials to allow local communities to sustain heritage sites so that they are not completely dependent on international tourism. Multifunctional economic development can make communities more stable so that heritage sites can support themselves within their respective communities and not only rely on global tourism. Cultural practices need to be locally embedded, developed, and included in education for people of all ages and backgrounds. Innovative practices have emerged during shutdown to recover traditional practices, to develop blended financing, to encourage grassroots practices, or to make heritage sites and collections accessible digitally rather than physically and can inspire new approaches to anchoring cultural heritage and its practice in local communities. Urban planning can support sustainable development at multiple levels. It can provide the spatial framework, legal tools, economic and production systems, design narratives, or educational tools to make international and local tourism by sea and land a part of sustainable development in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This Special Issue invites contributions from diverse disciplinary and geographical perspectives. Contributors are asked to propose papers on theories and (re)conceptualization of urban planning and sustainable cultural tourism as well as on concrete local interventions.
Contribution can, but do not have to, focus on the following topics:
- Planning sustainable development for world heritage sites;
- Participation and community development for sustainable tourism;
- Metalevel governance for sustainable cultural tourism;
- Digital archives, collections, and education and sustainable urban tourism;
- Planning for water-based sustainable tourism, including cruises;
- Traditional cultures and urban planning;
- “Hidden designers”, legal tools, financial incentives, land use, and other planning tools that can reshape tourism practices in space and time.
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable development goals
- Cultural tourism
- Heritage
- Urban planning
- Circular practices
- Climate change.