In the context of global urbanization and climate change, the protection of linear cultural heritage is facing a double challenge: the concept of living heritage advocated by the UNESCO Charter for Cultural Routes (2008) and the policy requirements of China's ecological civilization construction, which urgently requires the protection of ancient routes to be integrated into the framework of habitat optimization. This study focuses on the core conflicts such as the erosion of modern transportation networks, the conflict between tourism development and authenticity, and the fragmentation of ecological corridors from the perspective of human habitat, constructs a three-dimensional evaluation system of "cultural vitality, ecological resilience, and socio-economics", and reveals that the ancient paths are "socio-economic" and "social-economical" through the spatial syntax of GIS, the cross-scalar analysis method of oral history, ethnography, and microbiome monitoring. Through the cross-scale analysis of GIS spatial syntax, oral history, ethnography, and microbiome monitoring, we reveal the dynamic characteristics of the ancient road as a "social-ecological-cultural" composite system.
Di Zhang (Wed,) studied this question.