2025 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 34-52
As global urbanization accelerates, rural decline has become a widespread concern. The surge in peri-urban tourism in China has presented opportunities for historical villages near major cities. However, the prevalent homogenized construction model poses concealed threats to their sustainable growth. Resilience theory provides a comprehensive perspective to address these challenges. Grounded in rural resilience theory, this study compares two villages in Nanjing, China. Differences in their renewal procedures, tourist evaluations, and villagers' perceptions are highlighted. The resilience factors are summarized and extracted from three aspects—resources, morphology, and function—and the differences in the transformation, adaptation, and development paths between the two villages are revealed. Subsequently, a resilience-building trajectory for peri-urban tourism villages is proposed for their sustainable development.
