Evaluation of implementation and operation mode of conservation planning of historic villages in the Pearl River Delta

Abstract

The renovation of ancient buildings and roadways as well as the improvement of green landscape and sanitation facilities of historic villages are mainly based on the conservation planning in the Pearl River Delta. The implementation mode of conservation planning is divided into the government leading type, the village committee leading type, the government and the tourism developers combined type, the village committee and the tourism developers combined type as well as the villagers’ self-government type. It finds that the historic villages of government and tourism developers combined type and the village committee and the tourism developers combined type achieve better results including the ancient buildings better repaired and reused and the public infrastructures perfect and the residents have higher satisfaction through field reconnaissance and survey statistics. By comparing the actual effect of the conservation and renewal of the historic villages and the evaluation of the residents’ satisfaction under different conservation plannings implementation it hopes to provide a reference for choosing a suitable conservation mode for historic villages in China and even in the world.

Keywords

• historic villages
• conservation planning
• implementation
• evaluation
• pearl river delta