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Architecture and Urbanism Protection and utilization of traditional villages

Figure 12. Effectiveness of village construction - Business implantation. Source: Compiled for the present study).
tourists, my new fish ball workshop will reopen soon, so 4.1 Taking advantage of the surrounding
that more people can eat the traditional dish of Jiangbian development to achieve cross-regional linkage
Village,” said Uncle Quan, the inheritor of Jiangbian’s Jiangbian Village is located in a strategic location and is only
municipal intangible cultural heritage . More people are an hour’s drive from Dongguan, Huizhou, and Shenzhen.
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also willing to lease their houses as unused resources to Although its location reduces the travel time of visitors
Huijing Company. The village committee is also actively
working with the villagers and Huijing in this process to Jiangbian Village, it also reduces the village’s ability to
to carry out the second and third phases of village retain customers. On one hand, the rise of Songshan Lake
construction, hoping to bring the 700-year-old village back East Industrial Area (Qishi precinct) will bring a large
to life. number of employment opportunities and huge crowd
Tourism development has changed the living consumption potential for Jiangbian Village; on the other
hand, Jiangbian Village should utilize the resources of
environment of historic village residents from relatively traditional villages and take advantage of the new tourism
closed to open, increasing their exposure to exotic power of Dongqing Lake and the Ecological Belt to actively
cultures. Besides, tourists’ interest in local culture has integrate into them. Through the analysis of the demand and
promoted the revival of local culture and helped residents characteristics of the surrounding space, it was found that
deepen their identification with local culture to some the historical and human resources of Jiangbian Village are
extent (Esman, 1984); and the regional cultural elements
closely linked to tourism development (such as historical compatible with the pursuit of rural recreation and leisure
buildings, old trees, and folk festivals in historic villages) of Dongqing Lake Wetland Park, Ecological Belt, and the
have also received more attention, further stimulating local industrial platform. With the future industrial platform
residents’ to learn and love local culture. As the income construction in Qishi and the influx of a large number of
level of tourism increases and the residents’ dependence urban consumers, using the current Hubanling Mountain
on tourism deepens, the residents will be more aware of observation deck, and through constructing an aerial
the sociocultural and environmental effects brought by slow walkway, the connection between Dongqing Lake
tourism (Kong et al., 2016), and thus more consciously and Jiangbian Village can be strengthened, and Dongqing
protect the culture of historic villages. Lake can be further upgraded, thereby achieving a win-
win situation. In addition, by enhancing the connection
4. Strategies for the dynamic conservation between Jiangbian Village and Songshan Lake East
and use of Jiangbian village Industrial Area (Qishi district) and the Ecological Belt, the
integrated development of “industry, city, humanities, and
For the Lingnan Water Villages region, the rapid tourism” can be achieved.
transmutation and alienation of urban space in the process
of rapid urbanization will likely lead to the countryside 4.2. Linkage: Linkage integration of special resource
becoming a natural extension of urban territorial points inside and outside the village
expansion and then becoming an urban village among
many urban-rural combinations (Li, 2002). As a rare old At present, the new village on the periphery of Jiangbian
village in a rapidly urbanizing area, Jiangbian village needs Village has basically taken shape, and the contrast between
timely and effective spatial control in the development the new village and the old village is obvious. Most of
process and action planning and intervention to avoid its the villagers’ daily production and life is concentrated in
eventual evolution into an urban village. the new village, and the old village has become the part
that needs to be protected and utilized urgently. Linkage

12 An interview recorded by the author on December 22, 2022, integration of the village inside and outside the major
with Uncle Quan, the municipal non-genetic inheritor of characteristic resource points, to clarify the functional
Jiangbian fish balls in Qishi Town. positioning of different areas so that the major resources can

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