With the development of rural tourism, rural culture in China has suffered from development problems. Existing studies focus more on how to protect rural culture, ignoring the dynamic changes in rural culture. Therefore, cultural memory offers an important perspective to review the dynamic process of cultural changes. This paper uses the concept of cultural landscape to explore the changes in rural culture from the perspective of cultural memory. The research methods of historical data analysis and field investigation are used. The change process of the cultural landscape in Anzhen Village is explored. Firstly, the clan-style group life in the traditional human–land relationship is the germination of cultural memory. Secondly, typical Chongqing residential mansions become ways of spatial expression of the local cultural landscape. Thirdly, the group interpretation of the settlement landscape becomes the continuation of local memory. Fourthly, the migration of living settlements in the dual influence of modern transportation and administrative divisions is the deconstruction of local memory. Fifthly, the touristic reconstruction of the traditional cultural landscape is summarized as memory reconstruction. In addition, the factors affecting the changes in the cultural landscape are analyzed from both internal and external aspects. The discussion on the dynamic changes in the cultural landscape provides a theoretical and practical basis for the analysis, protection, and inheritance of rural culture.

This article borrows Heri Lefebvre’s space production theory to discuss the cultural governance of East Asian cities and how culture is used as a means of spatial organization in a structured way. Text analysis, field investigation, and comparative analysis are used as the main research methods to explore the specific social production process of Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park and Hong Kong’s The Mills. The social production processes of these cultural spaces took place in the same period, having some similarities, and they mostly involved transformation from old factories and old buildings in urban areas. However, the cultural governance strategies in Taipei and Hong Kong are different. On the one hand, the Taipei government’s continuous cultural policy has spawned diverse cultural spaces rooted in factory renovations and unified under the authorities’ imagination of “Creative Taiwan”. A benign model of cultural heritage protection has been formed in terms of community participation, industrial development, and ecological conservation in Taipei. On the other hand, Hong Kong’s cultural governance pays more attention to landmark cultural projects from the perspective of tourism development. Mainly driven by private capital, The Mills completed the transformation from a factory to a cultural space. The Mills’ transformation process is also the epitome of the decline of Hong Kong’s textile industry. In addition, different cultural governance strategies and cultural policies in Taipei and Hong Kong affect the dominant forces in the social production process of cultural spaces. The main driving force of cultural spaces in Taipei is the local government, while the production of cultural spaces in Hong Kong involves more stakeholders, such as private developers, non-profit organizations, etc., and presents the characteristics of a multi-path and multi-participant historic building activation process. Moreover, at the regional level, the abandonment and reuse of industrial buildings in Hong Kong and Taipei are rooted in the migration of local traditional manufacturing to mainland China with cheaper labor and the upgrading and transformation of local industries. This comparative study complements the global picture of cultural space production and also provides references for other areas.

Tropical regions experience intense and highly variable solar radiation, often resulting in excessive indoor illuminance, uneven daylight distribution, and visual discomfort in high-rise residential buildings. This study investigates the daylighting performance of various external horizontal slat configurations as a shading strategy for east- and south-facing rooms in a typical high-rise apartment under both intermediate sky with sun and overcast sky conditions. Using IESVE simulations, ten shading device (SD) configurations (SD 1–SD 10) were evaluated for their impact on daylight illuminance and distribution uniformity. Results show that high-rise apartment room with a commonly used overhang provided poor daylighting quality, with excessive illuminance and low distribution uniformity. SD 10 and SD 9 achieved the best performance at 09:00 and 12:00, respectively, for east-facing rooms across design days, while SD 10 was optimal for south-facing rooms on both 21 March and 22 December. Under overcast sky conditions, SD 9 demonstrated superior performance. This study proposes a novel adaptive external shading device featuring adjustable horizontal slats that can be reconfigured throughout the day to respond to changing solar positions and sky conditions. This approach overcomes the limitations of fixed shading systems by adapting to dynamic tropical sky conditions, offering a practical solution for enhancing daylight quality in tropical high-rise apartments. The findings provide design guidance for the development of energy-efficient shading, climate-responsive shading systems tailored to tropical environments.

Tropical daylight provision is inherently coupled with intensive solar heat gains, particularly in south-facing rooms that experience pronounced seasonal variations in solar altitude and exposure across different times of the year. When appropriately designed, external shading devices can mitigate solar heat gains while maintaining adequate indoor daylight availability. This study investigates the daylighting and thermal performance of a representative south-facing apartment room equipped with combined horizontal and vertical slat-based shading devices using a controlled, comparative simulation framework under tropical climate conditions. Parametric simulations were conducted using IES-VE to evaluate multiple shading configurations with varying slat positions, depths, and combinations under representative sky conditions and seasonal design days. The results demonstrate that mid-height horizontal slat configurations reduced front-zone Estimated Indoor Illuminance (EII) by up to 54.9%, while enhancing daylight penetration into deeper areas under direct sunlight conditions. Bottom horizontal slats further improved daylight distribution by reflecting sunlight into deeper zones, producing peak increases in EII of up to 26.8% in the middle zone and 19.7% in the rear zone under direct solar conditions. The addition of vertical slats further improved thermal performance by limiting lateral solar exposure without significantly diminishing the daylight-redirecting effects of horizontal elements. Selected integrated shading configurations achieved maximum reductions in operative temperature of up to 2.5 °C during peak afternoon periods compared with the base case within the adopted evaluation framework. However, under intermediate sky conditions without direct solar contribution, the daylighting and thermal benefits of slat-based shading were substantially reduced. Based on these findings, the study proposes a movable external shading system with adjustable horizontal and vertical slats for south-facing apartment rooms, intended to respond to changing solar conditions across the evaluated design days. Overall, this study provides mechanism-oriented insights to support the development of climate-responsive façade strategies for tropical high-rise residential buildings, with the aim of improving daylight distribution and reducing cooling demand.