Abstract：Cultural heritage belongs to the shared resource and public product with multiple values, a product of the interaction of “time-space-society”. With the acceleration of urbanization in China, more and more cultural heritages are subordinated to the urban built-up areas. Urban residents can not only obtain economic, cultural and other urban rights from cultural heritages, but also participate in and influence the protection and use of cultural heritages and the development of urban built-up areas with their diverse production and lifestyles, such as protecting and using, inheriting and innovating. Furthermore, as an “urban right”, all the historical formation, development, and contemporary protection of cultural heritage reflect the multi-directional interaction of “time-space-society”. It dynamically adjusts the social relations and space of cultural heritage and surrounding areas in urban built-up areas. Under the combined influence of external forces such as urban construction and internal forces such as people’s livelihood needs, unbalanced geographical development has occurred in urban built-up areas. Meanwhile, because of the limitation of the policy of protecting the cultural heritage, cultural heritage and its environment have been slowly falling into the predicament of the lack of spatial justice, including spatial encroachment, spatial privation, spatial isolation and fragmentation, and over-capitalization of public space. The specific performances are as follows. (1) The circulation of the material elements of capital, such as meta-capital (government), economic capital and cultural capital, is not in equilibrium and there can be a multi-game between them. Economic capital often conceals economic production and capital exchange by using the “concealment and privacy” function of cultural capital. Moreover, the two-way interaction between the flow of capital and the production and distribution of space gives rise to the problems of space extrusion and space deprivation. (2) Cultural heritage of urban built-up areas is extremely driven by economic capital, resulting in the privatization of land resources, financialization of cultural heritage and other problems of accumulation of deprivation. This leads to the problems of spatial isolation and fragmentation, and excessive capitalization of public space. In turn, it leads to a series of social problems, such as losing state-owned assets and unevenly distributed resources. (3) The protection and use of cultural heritage, which realizes the transformation from production expansion to infrastructure improvement and industrial upgrading, reflects the characteristics of the “three-level capital cycle” in most urban construction areas. However, it would inevitably destroy land resources, the ecological environment and the “authenticity” of cultural heritage. This would further exacerbate the unbalanced geographical development disparities in urban built-up areas. In order to focus on the process of cultural heritage protection and use, this study introduces a process dialectic. First, it explores the return of spatial value justice from the definition, attributes and recognition of cultural heritage. Then, this paper considers the return of spatial production justice from the perspective of information acquisition and overall development in the game process. Then, from the perspective of cultural security compensation mechanism, flow difference justice, and urban cultural characteristics, the return of spatial distribution justice is explored. Finally, this paper explores the return path of spatial justice in urban built-up areas. It integrates value speculation, multi-party cooperation and compensation for heritage conservation. This study can provide a reference for future researches on spatial justice of protecting and using cultural heritage in urban built-up areas in China. In addition, it can provide development ideas and implementation ways to promote the integration of cultural heritage in urban built-up areas into modern life and realize the goal of “rational use, inheritance and development”.
张颖岚, 刘骋. 空间正义视域下城市建成区文化遗产保护利用研究[J]. 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2023, 53(4): 16-27.
Zhang Yinglan, Liu Cheng. Protection and Utilization of Cultural Heritage in Urban Built-up Areas under the Perspective of Spatial Justice. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2023, 53(4): 16-27.
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