Preliminary Study of Heritage Corridor Landscape Quality Based on Visual Evaluation — Take Nanjing Qinhuai River from Shuixi Gate to Hanzhong Gate as an Example

Abstract:

The traditional heritage corridor is considered as one strategy of regional heritage preservation which linked with urban green space system. However, heritage corridor is seen as one landscape with heritage preservation value and closely bound up with human activities and social conversations which related to the heritage corridor. In this paper, taking the region of Nanjing Qinhuai River from Shuixi Gate to Hanzhong Gate as an example, we divided the evaluation system into two aspects, elements of landscape and ways of observation, to discuss the interaction and relationship between the visual experiences of different human activities and the landscape quality of heritage corridor. Using qualitative study as its primary means while quantitative study as auxiliary one, we attempted to establish one quantitative visual evaluation system under the influence of multi-factor interactive model. With the system, we did the visual evaluation for that region considering different motion ways, which differs from the past single-factor qualitative research, for the aim of facilitating the landscape quality quantification.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 409-410)
• Pages: 774-781
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.409-410.774
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Xin Jin, Jian Guo Wang
• Keywords: Heritage Corridor, Landscape Quality, Nanjing Qinhuai River, Urban Motion System, Visual Evaluation

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