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| A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY ON THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF URBAN HISTORICAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPE |
| LI Fan1, ZHU Hong2,3, HUANG Wei1 |
1. Tourism Department, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China;
2. School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
3. College of Geography Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China |
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Abstract This paper based on an analysis of relevant foreign literatures summarizes the latest progress made in the fields of landscape, memory and geography and points out that landscape, memory and place identification are tightly related to each other as the objective existence of landscape forms. The paper discusses the application of GIS and cognitive map in researches on urban collective memory and suggests that as city image and cognitive map is the spatial picture of people's collective memory, GIS technology can be utilized to acquire from different groups whose collective memory of urban historical landscape and spatial characteristics have been manifested. An empirical research on urban historical cultural landscape in Foshan finds that (1) interviewees' cognitive maps vary, but most of them can depict urban space by means of uncomplicated memorization of landscapes, among which urban historical cultural landscape is assumed to be the largest portion; (2) spatial structure of the memory of urban historical cultural landscape based on cognitive map is similar to that based on picture identification, in which image of the old city area tends to be clear while the new city area blurry, reflecting a deep print made by traditional urban historical cultural landscape of Foshan on collective memory; (3) the dimensional space of history and the dimensional space of nostalgia is consistent indicating that urban historical cultural landscape can normally recall people's memory and taste. The authors contends that in the context of globalization and urbanization, a perspective from the study of geography and an analysis of the collective memory of historical cultural landscape is valuable in terms of the sustainable preservation of urban historical cultural heritage, the formation of place identity of a city as well as the development of a new direction in the study of urban cultural geography.
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Received: 07 September 2009
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2010, Vol. 25 
