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As the fourth pillar of sustainable development, culture is widely recognized as contributing to human wellbeing. The distinctive culture of cities is an important driving force for attracting visitors to destinations for tourism consumption. Since historical cities have important cultural and historical values, the design of their tourist maps nee...
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... Similarly, Su et al. proposed a readable framework in 2021 by distinguishing the narrative features and spatio-temporal dimensions of areas with historical cultural features to form a narrative map [13]. In 2022, Zhou et al. constructed an expression framework for regional culture based on the cultural gene and the cultural hierarchy theory and designed a tourism map using narrative techniques [27]. However, these studies have not fully elucidated the relationship between maps and structural linguistics, which is a prerequisite for effective storytelling [28]. ...
... Through the VNF, highly characteristic and meaningful colors, figurative hand-painted symbols, and scene symbols were selected and combined in the map design to enhance its artistic appeal and narrative. Compared with previous research, Weng et al.'s method [12] and Zhou et al.'s method [27] lack in-depth discussion on narrative theory, focusing on cartographic techniques and visual effects of tourist maps instead. The crucial aspect of this study lies in the theoretical connection between maps and structural linguistics, serving as a framework for guiding the establishment of tourist maps. ...
Tourist maps provide tourists with destination information that reflects their unique characteristics and cultural connotations and play an important role in attracting tourists and serving marketing purposes. However, existing designs of tourist maps often ignore the importance of cultural resource selection and the relationship between maps and structural linguistics, thereby affecting the narrative function and representativeness of tourist maps. This study utilizes the local chronicle as a data source and proposes a novel visual narrative framework (VNF) for tourist maps. The VNF combines Todorov’s narrative hierarchy and Roth’s visual storytelling tropes to establish a mapping between map elements and narrative elements. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the VNF, the Songshan Scenic Area was selected as a case study. By applying the VNF, highly characteristic and meaningful colors, figurative hand-painted symbols, and scene symbols are selected and integrated into the map design to enhance the artistic value and narrative of the map. This framework reveals the potential cultural value of local chronicles and can serve as a reference for other historical tourist cities, contributing to the preservation of local cultural heritage.
... The local climate and species habitat environment in the LLNWP were taken into account in landscape planning that conformed to the relevant research results [53]. Moreover, the enhancement of the cultural function of a wetland park can drive the local tourism economy [54]. The research region is connected to metropolitan residential areas, and the most important cultural services are entertainment and education. ...
The valuation of wetland ecosystem services and the construction of environmental landscapes are generally recognized as contributing to the sustainable development of human wellbeing. The valuation of ecosystem services plays an important role in planning for the recovery of degraded wetlands and in urban wetland park management; however, the role of the valuation of ecosystem services is always ignored. To bring more intuitive awareness to the importance of the ecological functions of wetlands and to rationally plan wetland parks, the Lotus Lake National Wetland Park (LLNWP), an urban wetland park in Northeast China, was selected as the study area. We referred to the millennium ecosystem assessment (MA) method and calculated the valuation of this park using the market value, benefit transfer, shadow engineering, carbon tax, and travel cost. ArcGIS was used for remote sensing interpretation. The research results were as follows. LLNWP was classified under seven types of land-use. The functions of the ecosystem services included provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services, and their total value in LLNWP was 11.68×108 CNY. Regarding the per-unit area value of the ecological service functions of different land types, it was found that forest swamp > herbaceous swamp > artificial wetland > permanent river > floodplain wetland. Combined with the characteristics of the functions of its ecosystem’s services, LLNWP was divided into ecological and socio-cultural functions. Then, according to the main service functions of the different land types, we propose that the space in LLNWP can be reused, and proposal planning and management suggestions can be made with the aim of preserving the basic functions.
