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2 June 2026

To address the scattered protection efforts and uneven effectiveness of traditional villages in southwestern Hubei, this study focuses on 92 nationally recognized traditional villages in Enshi Prefecture. By integrating literature research, field inv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Revitalizing Rural Communities: Pathways to Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,214 Views
27 Pages

10 October 2025

This study introduces the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach into a rural setting and conducts a case study of Huaqiu Village. By integrating spatial analysis techniques, unmanned vehicle aerial photography, field surveys, and multitemporal data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Methodologies for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Highlights on the Most Relevant Standards)
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  • Open Access
78 Citations
11,916 Views
28 Pages

21 February 2021

This paper seeks to explore the sustainable development of contemporary Chinese villages by taking Nalu Village in China as a case study. Ethnographic in-depth interviews and observations are used to investigate the transformation of the rich history...

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  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,259 Views
23 Pages

13 February 2023

China’s rapid urbanization process has had a significant impact on traditional villages, and a series of problems, such as heritage destruction, space abandonment, and population loss, have emerged. The village protection and development resear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urbanization and Environmental Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,003 Views
30 Pages

4 September 2024

Traditional villages have reached milestones in developing a living culture, politics, economy, and society, among other aspects, while acting as important carriers of agricultural culture formed by long-term interactions between humans and nature. U...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urban and Rural Land Planning and Utilization)
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  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,314 Views
25 Pages

28 May 2021

Aiming at the current isolated, static protection method of traditional villages, a comprehensive evaluation system for the living protection of traditional villages has been constructed based on the land use function integration concept in “Producti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Rural Development and Protected Areas)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,251 Views
29 Pages

2 December 2024

With the rapid urbanization in China, traditional villages are undergoing simultaneous construction and destruction, making it crucial to scientifically balance the protection and development of these villages. The Loess Hilly Area of Northern Shaanx...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,962 Views
24 Pages

16 December 2022

In the process of urbanization in China, traditional villages are facing many challenges and impacts which impose certain constraints on their sustainable development. Based on the perspective of resilience theory, this paper uses fuzzy-set qualitati...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,345 Views
27 Pages

27 February 2025

Traditional villages are intricate socio-spatial systems shaped by multi-scalar interactions encompassing natural, cultural, and hierarchical dimensions. Despite their significant cultural and ecological value, conventional unit-based conservation me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Strategic Replanning and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage)
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34 Citations
7,117 Views
22 Pages

The process of urbanization has accelerated economic growth while also presenting social challenges. Urban renewal is crucial for achieving sustainable urban development, especially by preserving traditional villages as cultural heritage sites within...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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2 Citations
3,071 Views
17 Pages

7 January 2025

Rural Indonesian villages are defined by unique institutional dynamics in public service innovation, one of which manifests in juvenile justice administration where traditional governance meets modern legal structures. These institutional arrangement...

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11 Citations
4,078 Views
21 Pages

The renewal of traditional villages should not only focus on the protection of cultural heritage but also comprehensively consider the development of social, economic, and environmental aspects. The concept of place-making offers an effective strateg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Strategic Replanning and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage)
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4 Citations
1,843 Views
17 Pages

17 April 2025

Traditional villages are vital repositories of China’s historical and cultural heritage. To enhance protection precision, this study develops a novel risk assessment framework integrating three dimensions: the natural environment, tangible heri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Cultural Heritage)
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16 Citations
3,260 Views
20 Pages

4 June 2024

Watersheds provide a spatial framework for tightly coupling human activities and the natural environment. Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of traditional villages within watersheds is crucial for comprehending their origins and advanci...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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309 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2026

Rural land is the spatial embodiment and physical manifestation of nostalgia. When people settle in cities, they become rural sojourners, returning to rural landscapes through travel. The rural history embedded in traditional landscapes is a treasure...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
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  • Open Access
467 Views
26 Pages

Identifying Clusters + Evaluating Development Potential: An Integrated Framework for Traditional Village Clustered Protection and Utilization

  • Yanlin He,
  • Huadong Zhao,
  • Zhihao Yang,
  • He Jiang,
  • Ernesto Marcheggiani,
  • Linyue Xue,
  • Hong Wei and
  • Baoguo Liu

25 June 2026

The preservation and development of traditional villages are often affected by careless and scattered methods. The conservation paradigm has shifted from focusing on individual villages to regional clusters. This paper examines 275 national-level tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Landscape Management: Geoinformatics on the Conservation of Cultural Heritage)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,524 Views
37 Pages

14 March 2025

Timber-adorned and rich in heritage, the traditional villages of central Hunan are famed for their wooden architecture, which is both a cornerstone of their cultural identity and a key driver of local tourism. The aim of this study is to evaluate the...

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9 Citations
3,534 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2024

Traditional villages are one of the basic types of rural revitalisation and one of the important carriers of cultural inheritance. This research is based on the data of 53 traditional villages in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with the aid of...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
888 Views
23 Pages

13 March 2026

In this study, we explore how to balance the preservation of the original appearance of ancient villages with their development within the framework of World Heritage protection. We applied resilience theory and constructed a simple checklist, taking...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,743 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2023

The conservation of traditional village clusters, especially those within traditional village aggregation areas, is an important part of historical cultural landscape preservation. With the hilly regions of Zhejiang province as the study area, this s...

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31 Citations
5,027 Views
13 Pages

1 December 2021

Traditional rural Chinese landscapes have fragmented from the impact of rapid urbanisation and modernisation. Aiming to address this tough issue, the Chinese central government proposed the Traditional Villages Project, which is top-down traditional...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,249 Views
25 Pages

20 June 2024

Exploring the spatial distribution and type characteristics of traditional villages is crucial for promoting their protection and sustainable development. This article used the average nearest neighbor index, imbalance index, kernel density, standard...

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60 Citations
6,939 Views
18 Pages

21 July 2022

Traditional villages are the place where national culture is nurtured and inherited. Due to the acceleration of urbanization, the protective exploitation of traditional villages is an urgency in many regions of the world. Under the perspective of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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131 Citations
8,393 Views
18 Pages

Traditional villages carry the essence of traditional culture, which is necessary for rural revitalisation. However, continuous urban expansion has resulted in the rapid decline and even disappearance of these villages in recent decades. It is necess...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystem Health and Environmental Geography in the Belt and Road Regions)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,151 Views
38 Pages

16 January 2026

Traditional villages, protected as cultural heritage in our country, are rich in historical information, cultural landscapes, and traditional domestic architecture. This article explores the spatial distribution of traditional villages and proposes a...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,657 Views
18 Pages

A Study of Spatio-Temporal Differentiation Characteristics and Driving Factors of Shaanxi Province’s Traditional Heritage Villages

  • Xiaogang Feng,
  • Moqing Hu,
  • Sekhar Somenahalli,
  • Xinyuan Bian,
  • Meng Li,
  • Zaihui Zhou,
  • Fengxia Li and
  • Yuan Wang

10 May 2023

The spatial distribution of traditional villages is a key factor for rural revitalization and sustainable development. However, the rapid expansion of cities has resulted in the disappearance and decline of many traditional villages. Therefore, for t...

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4 Citations
2,196 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2024

The traditional villages along the Jiangsu section of the Grand Canal are facing the threat of decline and disappearance due to the decline of the canal transportation function and the advancement of urbanization, and it is urgent to study the protec...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,691 Views
23 Pages

26 September 2024

As a model of the symbiotic wisdom between humans and nature, traditional villages carry rich historical and cultural values in their existence. However, the rapid urbanization process has led to the destruction and even disappearance of many traditi...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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57 Citations
4,977 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2023

Traditional villages are the spatial carriers of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, the concentrated expression of thousands of years of farming civilization, and a nonrenewable precious cultural heritage. However, in recent dec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Circular Building Design and Construction)
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84 Citations
7,683 Views
26 Pages

22 September 2022

Understanding the characteristics of the traditional village distribution contributes to the formulation of relevant protection and development strategies. We adopted a series of spatial analysis methods to investigate the characteristics of the trad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Patrimony Assessment and Sustainable Land Resource Management)
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41 Citations
5,630 Views
11 Pages

30 December 2022

This study comprises 669 national and local traditional villages in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Using the ArcGIS software platform, the nearest neighbor index, coefficient of variation, and kernel density tools are used to describe the dist...

(This article belongs to the Collection Urban Planning and Built Environment)
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27 Citations
5,605 Views
24 Pages

11 March 2023

In recent years, the tourism industry in traditional villages has been developing rapidly due to the national call to vigorously advocate for and promote traditional culture, but there are plenty of problems and challenges facing the protection and d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Tourism Development and Tourist Behavior)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,327 Views
17 Pages

1 November 2022

Traditional villages are essential carriers of traditional culture and ethnic culture. Hence, it is of great significance to study and protect them in the context of urban–rural integration. From the perspective of the “Space Gene”,...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
85 Citations
7,422 Views
21 Pages

16 November 2020

Traditional villages are important carriers of traditional cultural heritage, and they have strong historical, cultural, aesthetic and tourism value for all countries and the international community. In China, the number of traditional villages is cu...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,805 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2024

The investigation, evaluation, and dynamic monitoring of traditional village buildings are crucial for the protection and inheritance of their architectural styles. This study takes traditional villages in Shandong Province, China, as an example, emp...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,147 Views
32 Pages

21 June 2024

The traditional villages in the Miao Frontier Corridor are the products of migrations, social interactions, and transportation, as well as production interchanges between the central plains and the frontiers of China in ancient times. They have made...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,264 Views
13 Pages

2 June 2021

Traditional villages are the historical and cultural heritage of people around the world. With the increases in urbanization and industrialization, the continuation of traditional villages and the inheritance of historical and cultural heritage are f...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
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23 Citations
3,592 Views
22 Pages

22 January 2024

Traditional villages, rich in historical and cultural value, hold a high level of preservation value. In the process of urbanization, traditional villages face the crisis of decline, making it difficult to perpetuate the carried cultural heritage. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecology Science and Engineering)
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29 Citations
3,275 Views
18 Pages

25 August 2023

Enhancing spatial quality is an important aspect of future studies on the development of traditional villages. From the perspective of spatial vitality, the degree of revitalization and utilization of traditional villages can be visually reflected an...

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13 Citations
4,642 Views
17 Pages

17 March 2023

Heilongjiang Province belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate. The special climatic conditions have resulted in the creation of unique traditional dwellings, which is a field worth studying. In order to study the spatial form of the trad...

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19 Citations
3,759 Views
25 Pages

18 September 2024

The traditional villages along the Wanli Tea Road carry rich historical and cultural heritage, holding significant humanistic and scientific value. However, with the rapid pace of urbanization and modernization, the inheritance and protection of the...

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50 Citations
6,581 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2022

Hakka traditional villages are an important segment of traditional Chinese villages. Analysis of the process of selection of a Hakka site can deepen our knowledge of Hakka culture. In this study, we selected Hakka traditional villages in Fujian, Guan...

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11 Citations
4,664 Views
21 Pages

23 September 2024

Many traditional villages have been degraded to a certain extent due to urbanization and out-of-control management. In addition, due to the lack of recognition and continuation of spatial texture in some village conservation and planning that, in tur...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,696 Views
22 Pages

Traditional villages are a valuable for their historical and cultural heritage, and have long been the focus of academic research regarding their protection and renewal methods in the face of increasing urbanization. In the village renewal model, the...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Health)
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5 Citations
1,745 Views
19 Pages

3 December 2025

This study supports the preservation and sustainable development of traditional villages by examining their spatial distribution patterns and mechanisms underlying those patterns in Henan Province. The study utilizes data from six batches of Chinese...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,500 Views
22 Pages

30 December 2021

The paper used technical parameters to investigate optimized solutions to protect the ecological environment and improve the microclimate adaptability among the traditional villages in Beijing. Shuiyu Village was used as a case study to analyze the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Architectural, Civil, and Infrastructure Engineering in View of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,704 Views
29 Pages

24 May 2025

Traditional villages in the Yellow River Basin of China are vital carriers of cultural heritage, ecological sustainability, and socio-economic development. This study employs spatial econometric analysis to examine the distribution patterns and influ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development in Urban and Rural Tourism)
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14 Citations
3,593 Views
17 Pages

24 January 2024

Constructing digital models of public spaces of social networks found in traditional villages helps us explore the logic behind the interactions that occur within various relationships as well as achieve the optimization of spatial layouts and the eq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Analysis for the Sustainable City)
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10 Citations
3,060 Views
21 Pages

14 April 2023

It is crucial for the protection and sustainable development of villages in China to effectively determine the changes that have occurred in traditional villages’ architectural features and the causes of such changes in order to provide timely...

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8 Citations
2,341 Views
25 Pages

3 July 2025

Traditional villages possess considerable heritage values. Tourism provides an effective way to protect and revitalize the traditional village heritages. Current research has insufficient consideration of tourism potential when constructing the spati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Preservation, Reuse and Reveal of Cultural Heritage Through Sustainable Land Management, Rural and Urban Development (Third Edition))

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