Using Public Participation Geographic Information System to Study Social Cohesion and Its Relationship with Activities and Specific Landscape Characteristics in Shanghai’s Modern Historic Parks

Chen, Yuxian; Tang, Jiajia; Dai, Daixin

doi:10.3390/land13121996

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Using Public Participation Geographic Information System to Study Social Cohesion and Its Relationship with Activities and Specific Landscape Characteristics in Shanghai’s Modern Historic Parks

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Yuxian Chen

¹,

Jiajia Tang

^2,* and

Daixin Dai

^1,*

¹

College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

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School of Design and Art, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen 333403, China

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Land 2024, 13(12), 1996; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121996

Submission received: 29 September 2024 / Revised: 18 November 2024 / Accepted: 20 November 2024 / Published: 23 November 2024

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Co-Benefits of Heritage Protection and Urban Planning)

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Evaluating the perceptions of social cohesion provides an elaborated understanding of the commemorative values of modern heritage. However, little attention has been paid to China’s modern historic parks (MHPs) due to the difficulty of capturing spatially explicit information. Utilizing a public participation GIS, we quantified four types of social cohesion in Shanghai’s existing MHPs, and analyzed their relationships with different types of activities and specific landscape features. The results show that the MHPs are rich in social cohesion, especially in belonging and place attachment. Social cohesion is spatially associated with leisure and sightseeing activities. The perception of different types of social cohesion varies across spaces with different landscape features. Our findings validate the composition of commemorative values of MHPs, and offer a reference for balancing the preservation and regeneration of modern heritage.

Keywords: urban historic parks; social cohesion; landscape characteristics; regeneration; Shanghai

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Chen, Y.; Tang, J.; Dai, D. Using Public Participation Geographic Information System to Study Social Cohesion and Its Relationship with Activities and Specific Landscape Characteristics in Shanghai’s Modern Historic Parks. Land 2024, 13, 1996. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121996

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Chen Y, Tang J, Dai D. Using Public Participation Geographic Information System to Study Social Cohesion and Its Relationship with Activities and Specific Landscape Characteristics in Shanghai’s Modern Historic Parks. Land. 2024; 13(12):1996. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121996

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Chen, Yuxian, Jiajia Tang, and Daixin Dai. 2024. "Using Public Participation Geographic Information System to Study Social Cohesion and Its Relationship with Activities and Specific Landscape Characteristics in Shanghai’s Modern Historic Parks" Land 13, no. 12: 1996. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121996

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Chen, Y., Tang, J., & Dai, D. (2024). Using Public Participation Geographic Information System to Study Social Cohesion and Its Relationship with Activities and Specific Landscape Characteristics in Shanghai’s Modern Historic Parks. Land, 13(12), 1996. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121996

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