Priority Sequencing and Pathway Identification for the Digital Activation of Lingnan Architectural Heritage in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

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10.2991/978-94-6239-721-7_25How to use a DOI?

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digital twin; Lingnan architectural heritage; small and medium-sized cities; priority sequence; GIS; AHP; TOPSIS

Abstract

As a representative resource-constrained small and medium-sized city in northern Guangdong within the Lingnan region, Qingyuan faces a core challenge in heritage digital twin deployment that is not technical feasibility itself, but how to determine which heritage units should receive priority investment and where first-round implementation should begin. Taking Qingcheng District as the study area, this paper uses 364 heritage-related POIs and 15 representative cases to build a prioritization framework for the digital activation of Lingnan architectural heritage through GIS, AHP, and TOPSIS. The results show that Qingcheng’s Lingnan architectural heritage is core-clustered yet overall dispersed. In the overall priority sequence, Zhongshan Park, the Qingyuan County Revolutionary Martyrs Monument, and Qingyuan Tourism, Culture, and Shopping Street rank highest. The 15 cases indicate three primary pathways—digital archive, digital narrative, and digital governance—corresponding to different implementation focuses. The study suggests that small and medium-sized cities should not pursue simultaneous, full-coverage, high-investment digital twin rollout. Instead, they should first identify a defensible priority sequence and then use the pathway result to guide initial implementation. Relative closeness should therefore be interpreted not as an absolute judgment of heritage value, but as a relative order for resource allocation.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ying Du
AU  - Yi Zhang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/07/06
TI  - Priority Sequencing and Pathway Identification for the Digital Activation of Lingnan Architectural Heritage in Small and Medium-Sized Cities
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 6th International Conference on Public Management and Intelligent Society (PMIS 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 261
EP  - 277
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-721-7_25
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-721-7_25
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