Abstract: Abstract: World cultural routes heritage is a cultural type that appears late, with complicated contents and massive scales among the world heritage. On the basis of stating the elements of world cultural routes heritage and its criterion of judgment, space layout and classification for themes types of world cultural routes are discussed. Based on 13 world cultural routes heritage sites and 32 European cultural routes heritage sites, the universal values of cultural routes heritage are analyzed. Besides, the succession values represented by township landscapes, art design, and cultures and civilizations, and extra values represented by economic development are discussed as well and the tendency that extra values are gradually stressed in excess of succession values and the consequences are worked out. Finally, great expectations are made on domestic world cultural routes, and there is urgent need for more attention on the space organizations of cultural routes conducive to the domestic cultural routes to be listed on world heritage and relevant researches.

摘要： 摘 要：世界文化线路遗产是世界遗产中出现时间晚、内容复杂、规模巨大的类型，在阐述世界文化线路遗产要素和判定指标的基础上，对世界文化线路的空间分布、主题类型划分进行探讨。结合13项世界文化线路遗产及32项欧洲文化线路遗产，分析文化线路遗产的普世价值，以及具有的以城镇景观、艺术设计、文化文明等为代表的继承价值和以经济开发价值等为代表的额外价值，并指出额外价值有逐渐被重视并超过继承价值的趋势及因此而带来的问题。最后，对国内世界文化线路研究进行展望，指出迫切需要对文化线路空间组织等方面予以更多的关注，以有助于国内文化线路的申遗与研究。