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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Development of industrial heritage reuse modes

and social importance but also holds the potential for (iii) Limiting the type of literature sources: Limited to “all
transformation and reuse as well-preserved industrial journals,” resulting in a total of 1488 retrieved journals.
legacies (Shan, 2006). Journal catalogs, conference notices, solicitations,
Research on Chinese industrial heritage began in the newsletters, and duplicate literature were excluded. To
1990s, and since then, a substantial amount of knowledge ensure the authority and reliability of the research, the
and experience has been accumulated, ranging from database includes 369 papers from the Chinese Social
theoretical studies to practical projects. Scholars have Sciences Citation Index, Chinese Science Citation
employed various scientific tools, such as knowledge graph Database, and Peking University core journals, as well
analysis, to visualize and analyze tens of thousands of as 658 other research papers relevant to industrial
documents, summarizing the work of previous researchers heritage. In total, 1027 papers were included in the
and exploring the future development trends of industrial research sample to establish the literature database.
heritage. However, it is worth noting that few studies 3. Analysis of literature statistical results
have specifically utilized the China National Knowledge
Infrastructure (CNKI) as their literature database, with 3.1. Number of publications analysis
most scholars relying on the “Web of Science” platform Figure 1 illustrates the quantitative visualization analysis
(Huang & Liu, 2022). Furthermore, many researchers feature offered on the CNKI search page, which was
tend to categorize their studies under the broad umbrella employed to generate the annual trend analysis chart of
of “industrial heritage,” which results in a wide-ranging literature publications. The analysis reveals that there was
and less targeted scope of research. Consequently, a
comprehensive research system for the “reuse model of a scarcity of literature addressing the topic of activation
industrial heritage” has yet to be fully developed (Su, 2020). and reuse of industrial heritage before 2005, with only one
piece of literature published in 2003.
In this context, this paper aims to fill the gap by
From 2005 to 2009, the State Administration of Cultural
utilizing the literature database provided by the CNKI. Heritage of China issued the “Wuxi Proposal - Pay
Employing the scientific knowledge graph analysis tool, Attention to the Protection of Industrial Heritage in the
CiteSpace, we conducted a visual analysis of the literature Period of Rapid Economic Development.” This document
on the reuse model of industrial heritage in China over emphasized the protection of valuable industrial heritage
the past 20 years. The 20-year duration was divided into at different stages of development, including modern
four distinct periods, capturing the characteristics of each
phase, and analyzing the emerging trends and patterns and contemporary industrialization (House, 2006).
in recycling modes. The findings of this study aim to Consequently, the number of published papers and
provide valuable experience and serve as a reference for related research results gradually increased. After 2010,
future research on the reuse modes of Chinese industrial the international perspective on industrial heritage began
heritage. to develop, with the adoption of the Dublin Principles
in 2011, and the Taipei Declaration on Asian Industrial
2. Data and methods Heritage in 2012. These documents played a significant
role in highlighting the importance of Asian industrial
The Nizhny Tagil Charter for the Industrial Heritage, heritage (Ji, 2017). Subsequently, the number of relevant
issued in July 2003, is recognized as the first international papers has consistently increased each year. In 2018 and
consensus document on industrial heritage. This landmark 2021, the literature reached a 20-year peak, surpassing 90
charter provides a comprehensive framework for publications. The research content expanded to include
understanding industrial heritage, including its definition, industrial transformation design in various domestic
value assessment, legal protection provisions, and other cities, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Yangzhou, Quanzhou,
important aspects. It offers strong guiding principles for and Qingdao, among others (Ji, 2022).
the field (Bai & Chen, 2022).
Based on the significance of this charter, we chose the 3.2. The author and the institution
year 2003 as the starting point for analyzing the evolution A total of 1,027 articles were included in the database,
and trends of keywords related to the activated utilization involving 486 authors. Figure 2A presents the number of
patterns of industrial heritage. The literature selection articles published by the top 10 authors in the database.
criteria are as follows: Notably, prolific authors such as Xu Subin (32 papers) from
(i) Search topic: “industrial heritage * activation” OR Tianjin University, Liu Boying (22 papers) from Tsinghua
“industrial heritage * reuse” (exact match) University, Shino Aoki (14 papers) from Tianjin University,
(ii) Selection of Chinese literature database Liu Fuying (13 papers) from Northeastern University, and

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