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Journal of Chinese

Architecture and Urbanism

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Strategies for the dynamic protection and

utilization of traditional villages in rapidly
urbanizing areas: The case of Jiangbian Village in

Dongguan City of China

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Cheng Wei , Yue He , and Yuanxing Liu *
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1 School of Architecture, State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China
University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
2 Dongguan Rural Revitalization Promotion Center, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Cultural Characteristics and Application of Adaptive Inheritance
Technology to Traditional Chinese Rural Areas)
Abstract

In recent years, along with continuous urbanization, traditional villages in rapidly
urbanizing areas have encountered difficulties like “constructive destruction,”
“material decay,” imbalance of the natural environment, and loss of historical culture
due to modernization. Under the requirement of “comprehensively strengthening
the protection and utilization of historical and cultural heritage and coordinating
the protection of historical and cultural heritage with urban and rural construction,
*Corresponding author: economic development, and tourism development” in the new era, it is crucial to study
Yuanxing Liu the protection and development of historical and cultural heritage. Since traditional
(Liuyuanxingdg@163.com)
villages are a living heritage, their sustainable development while respecting history
Citation: Wei, C., He, Y., & is indispensable. Coordinating the relationship between heritage conservation and
Liu, Y. (2023). Strategies for the
dynamic protection and utilization socioeconomic development to achieve sustainable development is currently the
of traditional villages in rapidly biggest challenge for traditional village conservation. Taking Jiangbian village as an
urbanizing areas: The case of example, based on the cultural heritage value of the village, this paper combines the
Jiangbian Village in Dongguan traditional village with the general direction of urban development and proposes
City of China. Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism, strategies of cross-regional development, linkage, and integration of surrounding
5(1):406. resources, complementing the shortcomings of public facilities, and utilizing unused
https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.406 resources, so that Jiangbian Village can be actively integrated into the development
Received: March 7, 2023 of the city, the synergistic development of the village and the city can be promoted,
Accepted: April 11, 2023 and the dynamic protection and utilization of traditional villages can be realized,
with the goal of enriching the research on the dynamic protection and utilization of
Published Online: May 5, 2023 traditional villages in rapidly urbanizing areas.
Copyright: © 2023 Author(s).
This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the Keywords: Rapidly urbanizing areas; Traditional villages; Dynamic protection; Jiangbian
Creative Commons Attribution- Village
Non-Commercial 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits all
non-commercial use, distribution,
and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is 1. Introduction
properly cited.
Publisher’s Note: AccScience As the essence of farming civilization and the root of national culture, traditional villages
Publishing remains neutral with are a living heritage with both tangible and intangible cultural characteristics, and their
regard to jurisdictional claims in
published maps and institutional conservation and utilization are not only fundamental for the continuation of local
affiliations. cultural lineage and revival of local culture, but also the endogenous driving force for

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