Construction and application of a novel urban knowledge model with extended historical and cultural semantics.

ABSTRACT: Historical urban spaces, imbued with profound historical and cultural significance, have evolved from 'spaces' into meaningful 'places'. But they now face the risk of being eroded by rapid urbanisation and forgotten by today's society, making it challenging to integrate them into modern life. UNESCO's Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL) Recommendation highlights the importance of understanding the holistic, layered, and dynamic nature of urban heritage. Therefore, focusing on the ancient city district of Guangzhou as a case study, this research explores innovative approaches to integrating holistic semantics of urban places by merging contemporary semantics from geo-big data with historical and cultural semantics from documents and archives to create an urban knowledge model that bridges the g

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12453240 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature