What Is the Critical Factor and Relationship of Urban Regeneration in a Historic District?: A Case of the Nanluoguxiang Area in Beijing, China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This interesting study aims to understand analitically the influence relationship among factors in urban regeneration projects in the Nanluoguxiang area in China.
In order to improve the manuscript, I would suggest the follow comments and integrations:
Keywords are too long and repetitive. In the introduction a section dedicated to the scientific literature about culture-led regeneration processes lacks; I would suggest to move, implement and upgrade the 99-109 text to the introduction or to a dedicated section. I'd revise the sentence 36-38, trying to express in a better way the expression regarding the local reclamation. The paper previously developed on similar research is only nominated in the abstract and in the line 57, I would suggest to add a complete citation. Please chech the correspondence between the citations in the text and the list of references. Is the way of writing the Author Contributions correct?Author Response
Response to Reviewer 1 Comments
Point 1: Keywords are too long and repetitive
Response 1: I agree with the reviewer's comment and removed Beijing urban regeneration and moved urban regeneration in Nanluoguxiang forward.
Point 2: In the introduction a section dedicated to the scientific literature about culture-led regeneration processes lacks; I would suggest to move, implement and upgrade the 99-109 text to the introduction or to a dedicated section.
Response 2: I thought the reviewer's comments made the introduction plentiful, so I supplemented the introduction by moving the text on lines 99-109 in front of the introduction and eliminating repeated expressions.
Point 3: I'd revise the sentence 36-38, trying to express in a better way the expression regarding the local reclamation.
Response 3: As the reviewers commented, the words and phrases were more appropriately adapted to the researchers' intentions. As a result, "one of the most active sectors in China's urban regeneration projects is local reclamation using cultural elements in a place plentiful in historical resources" sentence was changed to "one of the most active sectors of urban regeneration projects is regional rehabilitation using cultural elements in a place with plentiful historical resources".
Point 4: The paper previously developed on similar research is only nominated in the abstract and in the line 57, I would suggest to add a complete citation.
Response 4: The phrase is that there was no similar study before, but because reviewers perceive it differently, we modified the word "insufficient" instead of "unprecedented" to make it easier for the reader to understand.
Point 5: Please check the correspondence between the citations in the text and the list of references.
Response 5: We reviewed the quotations and references, reaffirming that there were some areas supplemented by the reviewers' opinions. It was also checked correctly using endnote software.
Point 6: Is the way of writing the Author Contributions correct?
Response 6: Yes, we wrote the Author Contributions in the form of the Sustainability Journal.
Reviewer 2 Report
I would suggest rewriting the abstract that is penalizing compared to the interest of the paper. In some passages the simplification falls into trivializations as in line 16 - 17. I would suggest to better explain also the objectives of the study 142 - 148. The explanation of the method and the results achieved are exhaustive and clear.
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 2 Comments
Point 1: I would suggest rewriting the abstract that is penalizing compared to the interest of the paper. In some passages the simplification falls into trivializations as in line 16 - 17.
Response 1: The researchers agreed to reviewers' comments and made the following modifications: The first and second summaries were inconsistent with the purpose of this study and were replaced by the more appropriate findings in Chapter 5, and the third summary was supplemented appropriately for the purpose.
As a result, the first summary changed the sentence from “there are certain factors that have strong causal relationships, while there are independent factors that have no relationship” to “both factor public space environmental improvement and the building restoration and improvement were analyzed as the most important factors”. We revised the second summary from “factors of preparation for generational projects and factors of citizen participation were less influential, and performance was lowered” to “the elements of the public space environmental improvement and the building restoration and improvement were closely related, influenced by policies and plans, guidelines and criteria, investigation and research, and the subsidy support project”. The researchers supplemented the third summary from “despite the fact that the project was promoted with the aim of revitalizing culture, it was confirmed that the influence on creative arts was underestimated because of excessive commercialization” to “despite the fact that the project was promoted with the aim of revitalizing culture, it was analyzed that the influence of cultural elements on other factors was very minimal because of excessive commercialization”.
Point 2: I would suggest to better explain also the objectives of the study 142 - 148.
Response 2: We agreed with the reviewer's view and supplemented the purpose of the study with sentences that avoided repetition and emphasized the need for research.
Consequently, we changed the sentence from “The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the elements of complex urban regeneration projects through the Nanluoguxiang area, which is a representative example of urban regeneration in China. The principal focus of this study is to identify the important factors and the factors that are prerequisites for important factors. In addition, this study aims to elucidate the key factors in the influence relation of the urban regeneration project element, and to verify that the key elements that contribute to the project.” to “therefore, in order to promote the urban regeneration project efficiently, it is necessary to elucidate the key factors and to verify the influence relation of the urban regeneration project elements. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the elements of complex urban regeneration projects through the Nanluoguxiang area, which is a representative example of urban regeneration in China. The principal focus of this study is to identify the important factors and the factors that are prerequisites for important factors”.
Reviewer 3 Report
I found your IPA -DEMATEL combined methodology very useful to analyze and understand the influence of the various regeneration project factors. Overall your study is a robust tool for better decision-making planning and management of urban regeneration projects, it was very interesting to see that “even though the project started with the aim of urban regeneration led by history and culture, the culture and art project received low-performance evaluations and low causality with other business factors”. Nevertheless, I do wish to see an improvement regarding the English language and to avoid some text repetition.
I recommend to clarify:
lines 17- 18 “Second, factors of preparation for generational projects and factors of citizen participation were less influential, and performance was lowered”. Do you mean … generation projects? and …their performance was lower than other factors or was lowered compared to what, when or how?
line 53. Could you give some examples of negative results regarding the regeneration of the city?
line 160. When you say “..the factor” do you mean each factor or some specific dependent factor?
Figure 1. Change the quality of the figure it is blurry, I recommend also to use the English language for the toponyms.
line 254, 259 and Table 1 you use the labels “previous project stage”, and “pre-urban stage”, are they the same thing? If yes I recommend to “previous project stage” to be the same as in table 1. If not clarify what is pre-urban stage.
line 260, 452 “the factors of this project”, “on the whole project” do you mean of your study? I recommend using the word study as in your abstract.
Table 1 “G Subsidy Support Project”, it appears in different font size than the rest elements of the table.
line 322-330. This text seems like is repeating, I recommend to make a legend next to the 2D mattress (Figure 4) with the letters and factors and keep a short description in the text after line 332 saying which quadrant is low and high.
lines 333-334 are similar to 340-341, keep the information only in lines 340-341
line 344 place “ (Table 4)“ before the comma line 343 “DEMATEL was conducted on the remaining nine important factors, (Table 4) with the exception of low-priority Quadrant 3...” to not get confused with the table of IPA analysis.
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 3 Comments
Point 1: lines 17- 18 “Second, factors of preparation for generational projects and factors of citizen participation were less influential, and performance was lowered”. Do you mean … generation projects? and …their performance was lower than other factors or was lowered compared to what, when or how?
Response 1: Since other reviewers pointed out the ambiguity of the abstract, the researchers replaced the second summary with “second, the elements of the public space environmental improvement and the building restoration and improvement were closely related, influenced by policies and plans, guidelines and criteria, investigation and research, and the subsidy support project”, a sentence more appropriate for the purpose of the study.
Point 2: line 53. Could you give some examples of negative results regarding the regeneration of the city?
Response 2: We added the examples of negative results, such as the rapid rise in land prices, the outflow of indigenous people, the social conflict of local people, at the line
Point 3: line 160. When you say “..the factor” do you mean each factor or some specific dependent factor?
Response 3: In response to the reviewer's comments, we supplemented the relevant content to enhance the reader's understanding.
We described the contents of “some elements are independent and some are dependent. As a result of the DEMATEL analysis, the elements of independent personality will be measured with low association with other elements, and the elements of dependent personality will be measured with high association with other elements” as footnotes.
Point 4: Change the quality of the figure it is blurry, I recommend also to use the English language for the toponyms.
Response 4: In response to the reviewers' opinion, the researchers replaced Figure 1 with a higher-resolution image with the English name.
Point 5: line 254, 259 and Table 1 you use the labels “previous project stage”, and “pre-urban stage”, are they the same thing? If yes I recommend to “previous project stage” to be the same as in table 1. If not clarify what is pre-urban stage.
Response 5: We unified the name of “pre-urban stage” to “previous project stage” to improve the comprehension of the whole manuscript, based on the reviewer's opinion.
Point 6: line 260, 452 “the factors of this project”, “on the whole project” do you mean of your study? I recommend using the word study as in your abstract.
Response 6: Following the reviewer's advice, we changed the following two phrases, similar to the abstract form.
the factors of this project ⇒ the factors of the urban regeneration project in the Nanluoguxiang area
the whole project ⇒ other factors of the urban regeneration project in the Nanluoguxiang area
Point 7: Table 1 “G Subsidy Support Project”, it appears in different font size than the rest elements of the table.
Response 7: Following the reviewer's advice, we matched the format of all fonts in the table.
Point 8: line 322-330. This text seems like is repeating, I recommend to make a legend next to the 2D mattress (Figure 4) with the letters and factors and keep a short description in the text after line 332 saying which quadrant is low and high.
Response 8: We agreed with the reviewer's opinion and created a legend describing Quadrants in Figure 4 to avoid repetition of the phrase. The researchers also added the necessary sentences and changed their order to make the meaning clearer.
Point 9: lines 333-334 are similar to 340-341, keep the information only in lines 340-341
Response 9: The researchers also removed lines 333-334 because, like the reviewers' opinion, lines 333-334 was considered a repetitive sentence.
Point 10: line 344 place “ (Table 4)“ before the comma line 343 “DEMATEL was conducted on the remaining nine important factors, (Table 4) with the exception of low-priority Quadrant 3...” to not get confused with the table of IPA analysis.
Response 10: The reviewer's advice seemed to avoid confusion in the sentence and we moved “Table 4” to the right place in the sentence.
