A Study on the Application of Italian VASA Historical Rural Landscape Environmental Integrity Assessment Method in China's Traditional Settlement Landscape
Since 2012,the Italian government has developed and implemented the National Standard for the Registration of Historical Rural Landscapes and created the National Inventory of Historical Rural Landscapes,putting the protection of historic villages and their environment into a national conservation system,and proposed the VASA(Historic Environment Assessment)analysis to achieve a scientific and accurate assessment of the integrity of the rural landscape.Based on the review of the theories and thinking on the overall conservation of the historic environment of traditional settlements,the paper analyzes the current system of indicators for the evaluation and recognition of traditional settlements in China,pointing out that the evaluation indicators related to heritage integrity lack objective and operational scoring techniques,and proposes the introduction of the VASA method to optimize the relevant evaluation and recognition indicator system in China.The authors further discuss the suitability of the VASA method for application in China's traditional settlement evaluation and recognition index system,taking into account specific research cases.
landscape architecturehistorical rural landscapeoverall landscape conservationland use changeintegrity assessmenthistorical index of rural landscape