Revitalization and Development Strategies of Fostering Urban Cultural Heritage Villages: A Quantitative Analysis Integrating Expert and Local Resident Opinions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Previous Works
2.1. The Strategies and Values of Cultural Heritage Revitalization and Development
2.2. Revitalization and Development Indexes of Cultural Heritage
2.3. The Relationship between Community Development and Residents’ Emotions
3. Methodology and Steps
3.1. FI-RST Model
3.2. Steps
3.2.1. The λ Fuzzy Measure and Fuzzy Integral
3.2.2. Rough Set Theory (RST)
- Building information system
- Confirming indiscernibility relation
- Setting of lower and upper approximations
- Confirming dependency of condition attributes
- Computing significance of condition attributes
- Deriving knowledge rules
4. Results
4.1. Empirical Case
4.2. Selection of Fuzzy Measure and Index Combination
4.3. Development Strategies Based on Fuzzy Integral
4.4. Cultural Participation/Cognitive Patterns of Residents and Local Cultural Identity
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Dimensions | Indicators |
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C1. Cultural venues and facilities | I.1. Number of people who report the site as a point of interest I.2. Number of cultural events |
C2. Cultural participation and attractiveness | I.3. Number of participants at cultural events I.4. Number of cultural projects activated I.5. Number of crowdfunding campaigns |
C3. Creative knowledge-based jobs | I.6. Funds collected by crowdfunding I.7. Revenues for the year I.8. Private investment |
C4. New jobs in creative sectors | I.9. Number of associates I.10. Number of temporary employees I.11. Number of business partners/collaborations I.12. Number of people employed |
C5. Human Capital | I.13. Number of local promoters I.14. Number of international partners I.15. Number of like I.16. Number of social accounts |
Parameter Combination | Combined Weight | Performance Status |
---|---|---|
{C4, C5} | 0.696 | 3.847 |
{C1, C5} | 0.708 | 4.216 |
{C3, C5} | 0.714 | 4.320 |
{C1, C4} | 0.719 | 3.982 |
{C3, C4} | 0.725 | 4.085 |
{C1, C3} | 0.736 | 4.432 |
{C2, C5} | 0.738 | 4.240 |
{C2, C4} | 0.748 | 4.336 |
{C1, C2} | 0.758 | 4.623 |
Culture Heritage | Resident Behavior | Semantic Scale |
---|---|---|
H1. Traditional festivals and unique celebration | I’m looking forward to the coming of the festival. The festival activities are very interesting, I will join in the fun, and even want to participate in it. | 1 |
Understand these activities, but do not have a strong willingness to participate and I seldom participate in them. | 2 | |
I don’t know about these activities and don’t want to participate in festival activities. | 3 | |
H2. Handicraft, intangible cultural heritage | These are our unique local art forms. I think it’s very beautiful. I even master some of them. | 1 |
Knowing about it, maybe some situations I’m willing to participate in the experience, but there are not much chances of contact. | 2 | |
I;m not familiar with but heard of it, but I feel no interesting in it. Even never heard of it. | 3 | |
H3. Traditional local food | I usually eat these things, and I think these delicious foods can well represent our cultural characteristics. | 1 |
I sometimes eat these things, but I don’t have any special feelings about them. | 2 | |
I know these things, but I don’t pay attention to them. | 3 | |
H4. Anecdotes of historical cultural celebrities and their spirits | These people are the pride of Huangpu Village. I know some of their anecdotes and I’m even willing to tell their stories to people and children around me. | 1 |
I’ve heard of it, but I don’t have a chance to know the details of it, but it doesn’t matter to have a chance to understand it. | 2 | |
I do not know about these historical cultural celebrities and their related anecdotes, and I do not pay much attention to them. | 3 | |
H5. Ancestral hall and clan culture | I am a member of these clans. We have our own family culture, and even our own family ancestral halls. | 1 |
I know there are different clans here, and I may be one of them, but I don’t know the culture of clans. | 2 | |
I know there are different clans here, but I don’t feel the existence of too many clans. | 3 | |
H6. Huangpu Ancient Harbor, trade history and culture | Very important. I think this is an important culture in Huangpu Village, and it is necessary to carry forward it, even as a regional symbol. | 1 |
Maybe the government and tourists will pay more attention, but I don’t care very much. | 2 | |
Not important, this is just some traces of history, it does not have too much values. | 3 | |
H7. Historical buildings and cultural heritage substantive environment | I think these buildings are very meaningful. They should be well repaired and protected. They are a good place for walking and leisure. | 1 |
I know some ancient buildings in Huangpu Village, but do they have any impact on me, and I seldom pay attention to them. | 2 | |
I don’t care about these ancient buildings, which has no impact on the development of Huangpu Village. | 3 | |
Remarks: | ||
Semantic Scale: | 1 = High participation; 2 = Medium participation; 3 = Low participation |
Question | Cognition of Resident | Mark: |
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Are these cultural heritage activities in Huangpu Village and Huangpu Village important to your daily life? | A very precious part of life. | 5 |
These cultural activities are integrated into my life. | 4 | |
These cultural activities will affect my life. | 3 | |
Knowing these cultural heritage and cultural activities but I don’t care or participate in them. | 2 | |
I do not know these cultural heritage and cultural activities. | 1 | |
Would you like to spend your time and vim into your cultural heritage related activities outside of work or study? | I have regular participation in some cultural activities or pay special attention to some cultural heritages. | 5 |
I will spend time and vim to participate in certain important cultural activities or frequent visit substantial cultural heritage environment. | 4 | |
I know about these cultural activities and cultural heritage, occasionally participate in some cultural activities, but generally don’t care. | 3 | |
I know these cultural heritages and activities, but I can’t take the time to participate because of my busy life. | 2 | |
I simply don’t want to spend any time and vim in these cultural activities. | 1 | |
Do you think the cultural heritage and cultural activities of Huangpu Village and Huangpu ancient harbor are valuable to the cultural development and construction of Guangzhou? | Very valuable and it is an indispensable part of Guangzhou culture. | 5 |
It is a part of Guangzhou culture and has a very good development prospects. | 4 | |
These cultures may be very good cultural resources. | 3 | |
The essence of these cultural heritage and activities is just some local cultures of Huangpu Village, which is not very valuable. | 2 | |
I haven’t heard of these cultural heritages or cultural activities of Huangpu Village. | 1 | |
Remarks: | ||
In this study, the score of local cultural identity of the respondents will be calculated through this table, and they will be equally divided into three scales of cultural identity: high, medium, and low, which are equivalent to the three scales of conditional attributes according to the ranking of scores, so as to be contented to the requirements of RST calculation. |
Class | No. of Objects | Lower Approximation | Upper Approximation | Accuracy |
---|---|---|---|---|
D = 1 | 84 | 76 | 104 | 0.7308 |
D = 2 | 189 | 150 | 224 | 0.6696 |
D = 3 | 106 | 79 | 125 | 0.6320 |
Core Attributes | H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 | |||
Quality of Classification | 0.8047 |
Rule. | Conditions | Decisions | Number of Objects | Expected State |
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1 | (H1 = 1) & (H3 = 1) & (H6 = 1) | D = 1 | 70.24% | Approach |
2 | (H1 = 1) & (H2 = 1) & (H5 = 1) | D = 1 | 55.95% | Approach |
3 | (H4 = 3) & (H5 = 3) & (H6 = 3) | D = 3 | 27.36% | Avoid |
4 | (H1 = 3) & (H3 = 3) & (H7 = 3) | D = 3 | 27.36% | Avoid |
5 | (H1 = 3) & (H3 = 3) & (H6 = 2) | D = 3 | 20.75% | Avoid |
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Sheng, G.; Liao, L.; Xiong, L.; Zhu, B.-W.; Cheung, S.M. Revitalization and Development Strategies of Fostering Urban Cultural Heritage Villages: A Quantitative Analysis Integrating Expert and Local Resident Opinions. Systems 2022, 10, 202. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10060202
Sheng G, Liao L, Xiong L, Zhu B-W, Cheung SM. Revitalization and Development Strategies of Fostering Urban Cultural Heritage Villages: A Quantitative Analysis Integrating Expert and Local Resident Opinions. Systems. 2022; 10(6):202. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10060202
Chicago/Turabian StyleSheng, Ge, Leqi Liao, Lei Xiong, Bo-Wei Zhu, and Sze Man Cheung. 2022. "Revitalization and Development Strategies of Fostering Urban Cultural Heritage Villages: A Quantitative Analysis Integrating Expert and Local Resident Opinions" Systems 10, no. 6: 202. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10060202
APA StyleSheng, G., Liao, L., Xiong, L., Zhu, B. -W., & Cheung, S. M. (2022). Revitalization and Development Strategies of Fostering Urban Cultural Heritage Villages: A Quantitative Analysis Integrating Expert and Local Resident Opinions. Systems, 10(6), 202. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10060202