Title: Evaluation of landscape relevance in Shanghai's historical landscape places

Authors: Zhen Wei; Wei Zhang

Addresses: College of Art & Design, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China ' School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Abstract: This paper makes a relevant qualitative and quantitative analysis and evaluation of historical values and landscape effects of Shanghai's historical landscape conservation, and systematically evaluates its landscape relevance. It elaborates on the significance of the relevance evaluation on Shanghai's historical landscape places. Based on the analytical hierarchy process, this paper establishes evaluation factors of the virtual space and real space in the evaluation items; sets weights and the qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods and rules; and ultimately builds the evaluation model of landscape relevance with Excel statistics.

Keywords: Shanghai; China; historical landscapes; landscape relevance; evaluation; historical values; landscape effects; landscape conservation; analytical hierarchy process; AHP; cultural heritage.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2016.080174

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2016 Vol.11 No.2, pp.124 - 130

Received: 02 Jun 2016
Accepted: 11 Jul 2016
Published online: 06 Nov 2016 *

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