The bricolage of old and new buildings in the West Scenic Zone is more or less entirely service-orientated: very few genuine locals actually live here.
And so, what happens in Wuzhen could have a significant influence on China's strategy for tourism, and its retention of historically important sections of towns and cities. Wuzhen, two hours by bus or train from Shanghai, has been bifurcated and demarcated into the more genuinely historic East Scenic Zone, and the overtly touristic West Zone.
This once despised, Bach-playing, Nietzsche-reading son of Wuzhen has now been sanctified as a strategic cultural and commercial asset for the re-branded Wuzhen West and East Scenic Zones.
He said: "We are disappointed at the apparent lack of provision of buffer zones around national scenic areas and national parks.
In the US, several states have included scenic value provisions in their coastal zone legislation and required that reviews of project proposals consider scenic or aesthetic effects.
Indeed, lahar hazard zones can be attractive for transportation and other infrastructure and for residential development, because these areas typically encompass deposits of previous lahars that offer flat topography, commonly above flood hazard zones, and they may offer scenic views of a nearby volcano (Figure 4).
The border with the Dominican Republic is littered with -- this time not so scenic -- textile factories and free trade zones.
North Korea is still the most closed society in the world, as a recent trip to the scenic Mount Kumgang region, just north of the demilitarized zone, vividly illustrates.
The permit is a formal notice that the project satisfies certain coastal zone requirements, such as no recreational or coastal scenic resources will be adversely impacted, according to a city staff report.
The Sun Island Wetland is in a triple functional zone overlapped by urbanization areas, development zones, and scenic spots [ 25].
Since North Korea opened parts of Mount Kumgang to South Korean tourists in November 1998, about 150,000 people have visited the scenic mountain region north of the eastern end of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.
