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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Cultural tourism integration in Yubai Village

Figure 7. Proposed plan of the poetic edible garden. Source: Drawing by the authors
set up locally. In this way, the modern air corridor can be A B
combined with the historic villages and beautiful mountain
scenery to create the most distinctive air tour line project
in the west of Beijing so as to accentuate the highlights of
Yubai Village and provide basic landscape support for the
construction of “service station.”
6.3. Improving the village road system

Through the improvement of the road system in the village, Figure 8. (A and B) Landscape enhancement effect of Silber Road.
Source: Photos by the authors
the connection between the nearby tourism resources will be
strengthened so that the village resources can be integrated dangerous for tourists, and with the increasing number of
and utilized, and the construction of the “service station” tourist vehicles, the problem is becoming more and more
in the village can be promoted. At present, the roads in the pronounced. The current width of the road from the village
village are generally in good condition, but the individual to the gully is only 4 m, and the current width of the road
roads are of low grade and need to be upgraded. For example, from the Anzi Reservoir to the edible garden is only 2.5 m.
Yubai Road, the field complex driveway, and Yubaizhong Road upgrade is therefore planned (Figure 9A). It includes
Road need to be widened and greened; the completed expanding the width of Nanshan Road to 6 m, the partial
mountainous walkway in the north of the village needs to be width of the road from the reservoir to the edible garden
repaired and upgraded; and the Michael Lin cultural circuit to 4 m, and providing a space for vehicles to merge lanes to
from Yubai Village to the South Ravine needs to be built. improve the traffic safety of the pastoral complex.
Due to the large number of visitors to the White Falls
Yubaizhong Road connects Baipu Temple and the
Temple, Yubai Road (the road of the Baipu Temple - Yubai southeast of Yubai Village, which can directly reach the
Village) needs to be further improved in terms of its village’s food service center, avoiding the problem of
landscape and road quality. For example, the exposed rock tourists arriving directly at Nanyan Road along Yubai
mass in the local road can be re-greened and beautified by Road without entering Yubai Village. At present, the width
climbing plants. Apricot trees along the way are currently of Yubai Middle Road is only 2 m, which cannot meet the
neglected and not in good condition, so peonies and other traffic demand; therefore, there is a need to widen the road
shade-tolerant plants can be planted under the apricot and enhance the landscape along the way to attract tourists
trees to improve the road landscape and improve economic to the village of the White Falls Temple, to provide visitors
benefits (Figure 8).
with the village B&B and catering services. At the same
Some sections of Nanshan Road and Yubaizhong Road time, to alleviate the traffic problem, a small loop road can
are narrow and difficult to converge, which is potentially be built at the end of the Middle Side Road (Figure 9B).

Volume 6 Issue 1 (2024) 8 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0953