Reconnect the City of Yangzhou with World Heritage Grand Canal Landscape

In 2014, the Grand Canal (China) was included on the World Cultural Heritage List. As the cradle city of the Grand Canal, Yangzhou is now facing the challenge and also opportunity of conservation practice in the context of rapid urbanization. Our research uses the approach of 2011 UNESCO's Historic Urban Landscape Recommendation, based on an inventory of the historic waterway landscape system in Yangzhou through a cultural mapping, analyzes the deterioration of the historic water reaches, related heritage sites and sense of places, proposes and discusses the ways of sustainable historic urban landscape regeneration to enhance the historic cultural significance.