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Depuis 2010, Arles est début décembre le théâtre d’une manifestation singulière célébrant une cinquantaine de fillettes arborant pour la première fois la vêture traditionnelle des jeunes filles de la Belle Époque. Ces enfants deviennent, à l’issue d’une présentation solennelle assortie d’un défilé et d’un spectacle, des Mireillettes, des petites « Mireilles ». Une référence à l’héroïne du poème en langue provençale de Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914). Désignée d’emblée par son initiatrice comme une invention de la tradition, cette fête est surinvestie de références et s’inspire des nombreuses cérémonies régionalistes initiées dès la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle. Cependant, en s’adressant à un jeune public, elle se veut le premier rite de passage d’un itinéraire costumier de la tradition scandant, selon les groupes folkloriques et les érudits locaux d’aujourd’hui, les âges de la vie. Organisée par l’association Festiv’Arles, cette cérémonie théâtralisée dépasse, cependant, la simple transmission de codes vestimentaires d’autrefois ; elle renvoie aux enjeux qui traversent la communauté des « gens du costume traditionnel ». Elle éclaire la démarche identitaire telle que la formulent ces adultes et offre potentiellement un renouvellement générationnel de cet entre-soi fondé sur une interprétation du passé dont le costume traditionnel est le témoin. Elle se présente également comme un lieu de transmission où les acteurs de la tradition partagent un corpus inédit de savoirs relatifs à la Provence et à son histoire. Enfin, cette fête des Mireillettes offre une tribune privilégiée pour affirmer le présent des valeurs mémorielles du territoire arlésien. Une manière de revendiquer une juste place dans la cité pour ce patrimoine de la tradition, un patrimoine immatériel qui conjugue savoir-faire et représentations mentales, et reconstruit un passé toujours en devenir. Every December since 2010, the city of Arles has been the setting of a singular event celebrating some fifty little girls dressed for the first time in the traditional costume of young women of France’s Belle Epoque. At the end of a formal ceremony accompanied by a parade and a performance, these children become ‘Mireillettes’, or ‘little Mireilles’, a reference to the heroine of a poem written in the Provençal language by Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914). As its founder recognises, this festival is an invention of tradition; abounding in local references, it draws on many regionalist ceremonies introduced in the second half of the 19th century. By addressing itself to a young audience, however, it aspires to be the first rite of passage along the itinerary of clothing traditions that, for today’s folklore groups and local experts, mark the steps of life. But this carefully orchestrated ceremony, organised by the association Festiv’Arles, goes beyond the simple transmission of the dress codes of another era. It touches on questions that are shared by those who consider themselves the ‘People of the Traditional Costume’ and thus sheds light on the adults’ own approach to identity. It potentially opens the way for a generational renewal of their self-segregation that is based on an interpretation of the past through the traditional costume. It is also a locus of transmission, where the protagonists of the tradition share the unfamiliar corpus of knowledge about Provence and its history. And ultimately, the festival provides a singular tribune for affirming the memorial values of the territory known as the Pays d’Arles. It is a way of claiming a just place in the society for this traditional heritage, an intangible culture that combines know-how and mental representations to reconstruct an ever-evolving past.

The history of urban transformation is a unique symbol of a city and the key to inheriting regional culture. In most current studies, the historical cities are analyzed considering water or multi f...

Urban brand image essentially reflects the regional culture, revealing the core spirit and culture of the city, and embodies value pursuit and development concept, which shows spiritual symbol of unique distinctive and specific temperament. To enhance the internal cohesion and arouse the cognition of city brand, it is vital to make the city brand known worldwide. We should deeply tap the profound connotation of regional culture, extract elements, strive to create a more attractive city image, and create unique regional culture of an internationally influential brand.

Indonesia is an archipelago which consists of various ethnic groups. Each ethnic group has a regional language as its group identity. Regional languages ​​have a very important role in social and cultural life. The people of Umato'os Village who generally use the local language of Tetun as a means of interaction, the formation process that occurs in Tetun in Umato'os Village is a change if the root word undergoes a process of forming a Tetun word. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques were carried out by observation and interviews. Data analysis using the equivalent method. To test the validity of the data, researchers used source triangulation. The result of this research is that Tetum is one of the regional languages ​​in the archipelago which is in the administrative area of ​​Malacca district, East Nusa Tenggara province. Tetun language has its own uniqueness in the affixation process, the affixation process in Tetun not only undergoes a change but also the affixation process has shown a person's activity. Language can be used as a means of communication that is alive and fostered by the Tetum-speaking community as well as a means of developing regional culture. Tetun also serves as the Mother Language (first language) for the Tetun speaking community.

Lake Toba is the largest lake in Indonesia, even in Southeast Asia. Lake Toba has excellent potential as a tourism area development in North Sumatra. On the outskirts of Lake Toba, especially Paropo, there are still many who do not have facilities for tourists, the large number of tourists who come to Paropo causes the Paropo area to need supporting facilities such as resort hotels as supporters of North Sumatra tourism development. Resort hotels are hotels located in tourist attractions, such as mountains, beaches, and lakes. The design of the Paropo resort hotel applies the Neo vernacular architectural concept. The problem with this design is "how to apply the neo vernacular architectural concept to the design of a resort hotel." The purpose of applying the concept of Neo vernacular architecture in buildings is one of the efforts so that it is inseparable from the surrounding culture and can also introduce regional culture to the tourists who come. Designing this resort hotel uses qualitative methods. This resort hotel brings the theme of Neo vernacular architecture that combines traditional Dairi/Pak-Pak architecture with modern architecture, where physical elements are applied/changed but also non-physical items such as cultural values, mindset, beliefs, layout, religion, etc. into the form of buildings and site design. The benefit of designing this resort hotel is the creation of resort hotels that can still preserve the elements of local culture with a layer of modernization and, if built, can develop the tourism area of ​​Paropo to attract tourists.

Legalized recreational cannabis poses uncertainty and challenges for the noncannabis agricultural and ranching community in Northern California, including what it might mean in terms of the price of farmland and ranchland and the effects on the regional culture of diverse crop production. In-depth interviews in Humboldt, Mendocino and Sonoma counties with noncannabis farmers, ranchers and key individuals closely tied to the community revealed insight and an overarching concern about the future for noncannabis producers in those counties. The research was conducted in the summer and fall of 2017, when the state and counties were ramping up development and implementation of recreational cannabis cultivation policies. Interviewees expressed concern about land prices, potential crop shifts, and outside investment in the cannabis sector, and recognized the parallels and emerging alliances between wine and cannabis producers. They also identified opportunities for diversifying their production and for improving the environmental impacts of cannabis production.

Prehistoric cultural and sociopolitical development in the mountainous region of Lika, Croatia, is still poorly understood, despite over a century of archaeological excavations. Traditional cultural-historical narratives based on grave good typologies suggest that a unified regional culture, the Iapodes, emerged at the end of the Bronze Age and rapidly expanded across the area. This interpretation, however, has yet to be systematically tested. To better identify and understand to the potential processes of identity formation during this period, this article analyzes mortuary contexts and assemblages as proxies for changing relationships between communities and possible materialization of a shared group identity. Results suggest clear but uneven momentum toward standardized burial practice among groups in neighboring valleys, implying that the creation of a true Iapodian group identity likely took longer than previously thought. Unatoč više od stoljeća arheoloških iskopavanja, stupanj istraženosti kulturnog i društveno-političkog razvoja prapovijesnih zajednica u hrvatskoj planinskoj regiji Lici još uvijek je skroman. Po uvriježenom kulturno-povijesnom tumačenju, temeljenom na tipologijama nalaza iz grobova, Japodi su se, kao jedinstvena regionalna kulturna grupa, pojavili na kraju brončanog doba, te su se vrlo brzo proširili područjem Like. Ovakvu interpretaciju, međutim, tek treba sustavno preispitati. S ciljem boljeg utvrđivanja i razumijevanja potencijalnih procesa formiranja identiteta tijekom ovog razdoblja, u ovom su radu analizirani grobni konteksti i pripadajući skupovi nalaza koji su odraz promjenjivih odnosa među zajednicama, kao i moguće materijalizacije zajedničkog grupnog identiteta. Rezultati analize ukazuju na jasnu, premda neujednačenu težnju ka standardizaciji pogrebne prakse između zajednica susjednih dolina, što sugerira da je proces formiranja pravog japodskog grupnog identiteta vjerojatno trajao duže nego što se pretpostavljalo.

As the most influential commercial port center of ancient Huizhou, Tunxi Old Street is an important material carrier of Hui culture. In the current optimization of urban stock, it is faced with problems such as the decline of regional culture and the homogeneity of spatial form. By combing the historical evolution and value characteristics of Tunxi Old Street, introducing the concept of microregeneration, exploring the strategy of micro-regeneration of historical and cultural districts, this paper realizes the sustainable development of district from three dimensions of urban venation restoration, node space activation and building characteristics shaping, which can provide reference for the regeneration of other historical and cultural districts.

Taizhou is one of the important port cities and trade centers in Zhejiang Province in Chinese history. The traditional buildings retained in its historic districts have not only conformed to the development of the times, but also witnessed the local historical changes and finally formed their own unique local characteristics. The paper takes Haimen Old Street in a good condition of protection as the research object, conducts a comprehensive investigation on the protection status of modern architectures in the Old Street, and deeply explores the spatial forms and architectural features of the buildings. After investigation, it was found that Haimen Old Street has a good architectural shape and characteristics after undergoing conservation and restoration work, which can be said to be a model of architectural protection in eastern Zhejiang. This survey can provide evidence and suggestions for the protection of buildings in historical districts in Zhejiang, so as to achieve the purpose of inheriting the regional culture of Taizhou’s characteristic buildings.

Geng, M.Y.; Ma, K.X.; Hong, L., and Wang, K., 2020. Zhuang landscape architecture evolvement in Guangxi: The example of coastal city Nanning. In: Guido Aldana, P.A. and Kantamaneni, K. (eds.), Advances in Water Resources, Coastal Management, and Marine Science Technology. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 104, pp. 902–906. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.The long period of time assures the evolvement and accumulation of the Zhuang culture in Guangxi. It has thus formed its own unique landscape architecture, which interacts and co-develop with the Zhuang people's life, activities, culture and regional natural conditions, in shaping the city image and inheriting the regional culture. Through the in-depth study and analysis on the landscape architecture of the Zhuang Nationality in Guangxi, its cultural heritage and local customs and conditions could be appreciated, to practice the abstract culture in real life. Taking the application and inheritance of local culture as the starting point, this paper systematically reviews the evolvement process of the Zhuang landscape architecture, and provides assistance for exploring ways to create urban landscape characteristics.

This chapter argues that the changes which took place in Scottish intellectual culture during the 1680s were not in themselves sufficient to produce this cultural moment. Instead, they interacted with and built upon the rich, long-standing cultural traditions of the north-east, ‘Scotland beyond the mountains’, which are here traced to the foundation of King’s College, Aberdeen, by Bishop William Elphinstone and the early development of a distinctively north-eastern humanist tradition. The scholars and scholarship discussed in the remainder of this book owed their intellectual and cultural world to this heady blend of Early Enlightenment intellectual ferment, revolution, and north-eastern humanism.

Xinjiang, since it became affiliated with the central plain dynasty once again in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, has been committed to city building and construction in batches, aiming to reinforce military defense and develop economy through reclaiming outlying wasteland. Yili is a area of renown in history that remains geographically essential to the military defense of China’s northwestern border. Starting from its regional culture, this paper analyzes the cultural elements incorporated in its historical cityscape planning, which principally encompass geographical landmarks, ethnicities, religions among other cultural landscapes, and elucidates the necessity of integrating regional culture and landscape design, in an attempt to furnish approaches to exploring and carrying forward traditional regional culture, preserving cultural landscapes unique to this area, and displaying the peculiar enchantment.

Cultural consumption plays a positive role on economic development and social development; it also is the key factor to the improvement of culture industry. Taken the regional culture consumption as the subject, this paper emphasizes on discussing the environmental influencing factors of the regional culture consumption and finds the mechanism that how these factors work using the quantile regression model on the Basis of 31 Provinces’ Data in China1.

This paper discusses selected types of native, appellative-form surnames of the inhabitants of 19th-century Cieszyn Silesia and its surrounding areas. Such appellative-form surnames (without derivative indicators) reflect the regional culture and values characteristic to, and cultivated by, the inhabitants of the region. An overview of them confirms that Cieszyn Silesia, as an ethnic-cultural borderland, stands out with its sub-regional distinctness in onymic stock. The described surnames not only reflect the values acknowledged by the inhabitants of 19th-century Cieszyn Silesia, showing the immanence of this set in the regional context, but they also depict the material and spiritual culture of the inhabitants of this region. The researcher used the semantic field method to analyse the anthroponymic material, and the sociolinguistic aspect of naming was considered when describing the collected set of appellative-based surnames, with references made to statistical research.

As an important subset of the urban population and a major contributor to urban social wealth, the elderly play an important role in a city&rsquo, s sustainable development. Based on data from the statistical yearbook and an empirical investigation, this paper evaluated the elderly suitability of 75 parks in China&rsquo, s Shanghai Central District using a self-defined Python script tool based on ArcGIS. According to spatial differences in the elderly suitability of parks, we employed spatial interpolation to explore the reasons for variations in park services in different residential spaces in Shanghai Central District. The results revealed the following: (1) the elderly suitability of parks in Shanghai Central District decreases gradually from the inner ring to the outer ring, (2) the park accessibility in Shanghai Central District is generally low, and the park service space can be divided into five categories ranging from &ldquo, low accessibility, super-low elderly suitability&rdquo, to &ldquo, high accessibility, high elderly suitability&rdquo, and (3) the advantages of regional function and location, the development of regional culture and tourism economy, and the implementation of regional elderly-care policies are factors promoting the improvement of the elderly suitability of regional park services. Finally, this paper provided scientific decision-making suggestions for Shanghai and other aging cities to optimize the elderly suitability of urban parks.

Featured towns, along with regional towns in just a few years, have shown an explosive growth of a new industry as a new carrier. In the past, the construction of “a thousand towns with one side” or achievement towns has failed. This study takes the Hakka characteristic town of Zhongyuan Township, Jing’an, Jiangxi as an example, extracts the local regional culture and integrates it into the landscape design, and builds a unique characteristic town with characteristic principles and characteristics as the core.

In order to create a good cultural atmosphere and environmental characteristics, improve the overall quality, promote the integration of public life into the modern city, and enhance the local artistic charm and taste of life, the creators integrated the regional culture and the unique environment of the place in the sculpture design concept scheme of yuanbaozi wetland park with the sense of modernity, interactivity and regionality. Taking “mountain” and “water” as the main idea, human history as the key link and integrating local elements can not only continue the context, but also reflect the unique local characteristics, and then integrate with the park landscape layout and style to realize the beauty of diversity and unity.

To solve the problems of urbanization and homogenization of landscape, loss of regional culture, and lack of overall planning in the landscape planning and design of Chinese villages in the context of urban-rural integration, by combining the Attraction-Validity-Capacity (AVC) theory with the design and planning of rural landscapes, constructing an AVC-based rural landscape evaluation indicator system, and combining Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and other methods, the relationship of rural planning to the vitality, attractiveness, and capacity of AVC theory is explored. Combined with the theory of AVC, the theoretical basis for the expression of regional culture in the planning and construction of rural landscape is put forward. The results show that after the construction of the AVC evaluation system for the special terrain and deep cultural heritage of Dang village in Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province, the comprehensive AVC score of Dang village landscape is 0.3121, and the comprehensive scores of attraction, vitality, and capacity are 0.3055, 0.2985, and 0.3381, respectively. In summary, it is concluded that although Dang village has a good cultural environment and profound background, it lacks reasonable development and orderly planning measures, resulting in the gradual loss of its unique regional culture. Finally, combined with the AVC evaluation and analysis results, suggestions for the follow-up construction planning of Dang village are put forward and applied to practical teaching research. The results can provide a reference for studying the expression of regional culture in landscape planning and design.

Wang, Y.; Yang, Z., and Hong, Y., 2020. Distribution characteristics of Hakka dialects in Hunan Province: discussion on “Coastal-Inland” migration route. In: Yang, Y.; Mi, C.; Zhao, L., and Lam, S. (eds.), Global Topics and New Trends in Coastal Research: Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 103, pp. 575–580. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Under the background of modernization and globalization, dialects have declined. Dialect is the carrier of regional culture and the important sign and content of regional cultural identity. The loss of dialect means the lack of regional culture. Therefore, the study of dialects is of great significance. In this paper, the spatial smoothing tool of GIS and Floating Catchment Area (FCA) are used to study the distribution of Hakka dialect in Hunan Province. The research shows that the Hakka dialects in Hunan are mainly distributed in the eastern and southern border areas of Hunan Province, especially in the southeast. There is no distribution of Hakka dialects in the central, northern and western areas.

In the course of historical development, Panzhihua has been integrating the cultural characteristics of various ethnic groups, at the same time, its unique geographical position and complex cultural background provide favorable conditions for the shaping of cultural personality and the construction of regional cultural highland. Therefore, through the study of Panzhihua cultural personality and the construction of regional cultural highland measures and countermeasures analysis, the aim of the paper is to lay the foundation for the better transmission and promotion of the regional culture of Panzhihua and the healthy development of the regional real economy and cultural industries.

This study provides an experimental-exploratory investigation about the role of regional culture and Euclidean distances on the consumers’ representation of edible insects in Brazil, a country with an extensive geographical surface. Seven hundred and eighty participants were recruited on the streets of eight cities from different Brazilian states: Manaus in Amazonas; Porto Velho in Rondonia; Macapa in Amapa; Cuiaba in Mato Grosso; Aracaju in Sergipe; Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro; Campinas in Sao Paulo; and Santa Maria in Rio Grande do Sul. These participating cities were considered from their cultural identity differences and geographical distances. Through a continual restricted word association task, participants were instructed to promptly verbalize the first five terms that came to their minds when stimulated with the expression “food made with edible insects”. Following, they had to score the valence of each term they produced. The dictionaries produced in each city were compared and classified into groups using the Ellegard’s index. Each group presented distinct ways of expression and attitude with respect to the inductive expression. Basically, Brazil was divided into two main groups according to their representation of edible insects: one consisted by the cities situated near the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, which present a cultural formation influenced by the European immigrants; and the other comprised the cities from the continental region that have strong cultural influence from the Amerindians. Thus, the cultural formation was more decisive to explain the similar representations among the cities than their geographical proximity. Given that, to effectively introduce a novel food in a country with varied regional culture, the marketing strategy should be focused on the values and beliefs of their culture subgroups instead of a single strategy for the whole country.

Along with the integration of urban and rural construction, the urban area of many cities in China has been expanding rapidly, and farmland and rural areas around the city have gradually become the new urban areas. Agriculture and rural areas are being absorbed by the growing cities. Development has been made at the expense of the surrounding farmland and natural scenery as a heavy price. The development of blindness has led to the serious homogenization of the "one side" of the current planning and construction, the lack of vitality and greenness of the city as well as the collapse of farmland, energy shortage and environmental problems. Even having the congenital advantages of the Chengdu Plain and facing the problem of gradually compressed living space, how can Lin Pan of western Sichuan under this huge impact not only gets its own development but also retains the original landscape features has become a current major issue. Therefore, based on the study of Lin Pan of Western Sichuan, this paper studies the strategies of rural revitalization, researches how to build a rural model with the regional cultural characteristics of West Sichuan and seeks to build a model system suitable for the development and protection of Lin Pan of Western Sichuan. It is hoped that we can promote the "going out" of Lin Pan of Western Sichuan and usher in a new situation of integration between urban and rural areas.

Influenced by geographical environment, cultural blending and lifestyles in different geographical spaces, a regional culture with unique cultural characteristics has been formed in the vast territory of our country. The contents and information contained in it are very rich, with the most representative of artistic culture, especially is a unique geographical characteristic of the art and culture. In the process of teaching environmental art design, integrating the study of regional special culture can strengthen the design of regional culture and art in the architectural space and is of great value to the inheritance and protection of the regional culture and the regional art form.

This research establishes that the emergence and persistence of intrastate conflict incidence since 1960 are influenced by regional agro-ecological factors captured by the extent of variation in potential crop yield. Our results based on cross-country and grid-level analysis indicate that higher potential crop yield variability within a country that is exogenous to both human intervention and regional culture increases the likelihood of intrastate conflict. Our findings are robust to the inclusion of various geographical, institutional, and potentially confounding economic development correlates. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Accepted version

El proyecto de investigación “Paisaje Cultural Cafetero del Tolima”, pretende identificar el paisaje cultural como bien de interés cultural de esta región en Colombia. Se propone el desarrollo de una puesta en valor de los atributos del paisaje y de sus enlaces naturaleza-cultura. Primero, debido a su pertinencia para el conocimiento y la apropiación de la cultura regional y segundo, debido a que la investigación científica aplicada a una región de alta calidad productiva agrícola a nivel nacional, es desconocida. Lo anterior permitirá formular estrategias en atención a las implicaciones del paisaje ante el ordenamiento territorial, la variabilidad climática, la sostenibilidad ambiental, la gestión del riesgo, las actividades turísticas y el relevo generacional de jóvenes que ya no quieren ser caficultores. Asimismo, el paisaje cultural se muestra, como el escenario idóneo para acoger los procesos de cohesión y reconstrucción del tejido social de las comunidades en el marco de la Paz. The research project "Coffee Cultural Landscape of Tolima", aims to identify the cultural landscape as a cultural asset in the Tolima region, Colombia. It proposes the development of an appraisement project about the attributes of the landscape and its culture-nature linkages. First, because it is relevant to the knowledge and appropriation of the regional culture of Tolima, and second, because scientific research applied to a region of high productive agricultural quality at the national level, is unknown.This will enable the formulation of strategies attending implications for land use, climate change, environmental sustainability and risk management, also tourism activities and generational change of thousands of youngsters who no longer want be coffee growers. Likewise, the cultural landscape is shown, as the ideal setting to embrace the processes of cohesion and reconstruction of the social linkages of the communities within the framework of Peace.

Contemporary Bhojpuri cinema has been celebrated as demonstrating a renaissance of regional culture, but also derided as commercially opportunistic, producing inauthentic regional cultural products. Instead of judging the authenticity of Bhojpuri media, this article addresses the ways that regional cinema produces durable ideas of geographic regionality by addressing a region that is constantly on the move. The referent of the “regional” in “regional cinema” is often taken to be an isomorphic dyad of language and geography. But in the case of Bhojpuri cinema, “the region” is not a straightforward place: the linguistic limits of Bhojpuri are always in question and the geographic limits of Bhojpuri have not been coterminous with any state; the Bhojpuri audience is taken to be highly migratory; and Bhojpuri cinema is produced far from its geographic center. Without a stable geo-linguistic referent, and without an unbroken history of filmmaking by linguistic insiders, contemporary Bhojpuri filmmakers shift Bhojpuri cartographies to address Bhojpuri migrants across the country. This article traces the shifting maps sketched out by recorded cassettes and cinema in Bhojpuri. I argue that through these modes of shifting geographic mapping, Bhojpuri media calls a diffuse public into being—one that does not consolidate pre-existing geo-linguistic borders, but suggests new, diffuse cartographies of mobility and belonging.

Traditional craftsmanship is an important part of traditional culture. The Huizhou three carvings (stone, wood and brick carvings) refer to decorative sculptures of architectures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the ancient Huizhou area, which are excellent representatives of Huizhou traditional handcrafts. For effective protection and the inheritance of Huizhou regional culture, it is of critical importance to identify and improve the influencing factors of cultural-ecological environment. This paper deals with a factor analysis for 16 cultural- ecological environment attributes in nine cities and counties, including Huangshan City, Wuyuan County, and Jixi County by using the principal component analysis method. It discusses the effect of the influencing factors of cultural-ecological environment on handcraft inheritance inclination of the Huizhou three carvings, through logit regression analysis. The results show a significant positive correlation among the four influencing factors of cultural-ecological environment of natural, social and economic development, policy and system, transportation and income as well as interaction between tourism and aesthetics, and the inheritance inclination of traditional handcrafts. Accordingly, the guiding ideas and methods, which influence the inheritance of traditional craftsmanship are proposed.