Towards a new computational approach to conserving the spatial authenticity of historic towns within a heritage tourism framework
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2018
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Liao, P.
Rofe, M.
Brisbin, C.
Gu, N.
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Amoêda, R.
Pinheiro, S.
Pinheiro, S.
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Heritage 2018: proceedings of the 6th international conference on heritage and sustainable development, 2018 / Amoêda, R., Pinheiro, S. (ed./s), vol.2, pp.1769-1780
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Heritage 2018: 6th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development (12 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2018 : Granada, Spain)
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Increasingly, heritage tourism presents the socio-cultural assets of historic towns as being authentic. Although there are a wide spectrum of approaches for assessing authenticity, in regards to the spatial layouts of historic towns, they lack clarity and detail in formally conceptualizing and measuring spatial authenticity. Thus, as the first step, this paper presents a computational approach for understanding and conserving spatial authenticity. To achieve this, two integrated methods are explored and their ability to enable a more nuanced and critical understanding of spatial authenticity evaluated. The first of these methods is Space Syntax, a set of mathematical techniques for analyzing the spatial configuration from urban spaces to individual buildings, enabling the spatial pattern and functional change of historic towns to be computationally analyzed. The second method is a Case-based Reasoning (CBR) approach. CBR can be applied to the Space Syntax results enabling a comparative and evaluative approach resulting in a greater understanding of the spatial pattern in historic towns. This integrated approach holds great potential for the development of a standard template that contributes to generating guide-lines on historic town conservation.
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