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The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at its best, a reflective and consequential process of urban and socio-economic reform. It has the potential to reconcile conflicting memories, meanings, and cultural tensions, bridging and expanding the perceived boundaries of multiple disciplines towards bigger aspirations of city-making and social justice.
How and where do such aspirations overlap and differ across nations and societies across the world? In places with different histories, governance structures, regulatory stringency, and populist dispositions, who are the specific players, and what are the actual processes that bring about bigger and deeper change beyond just the conservation of an architectural or urban entity of perceived value?
This collection of scholarly articles by theorists, academics, and practitioners explores the global complexity, guises, and potential of heritage conservation. Going from Tokyo to Cairo, Shenzhen to Rome, and Delhi to Moscow, this volume examines a vast range of topics - indigenous habitats, urban cores, vernacular infrastructure, colonial towns, squatters, burial sites, war zones, and modern landmarks. It surfaces numerous inherent issues - water stress, deforestation, social oppression, poverty, religion, immigration, and polity, expanding the definitions of heritage conservation as both a professional discipline and socio-cultural catalyst. This book argues that the intellectual and praxis limits of heritage conservation - as the agency of reading, defining, and intervening with built heritage - can be expansive, aimed at bigger positive change beyond a specific subject or object; plural, enmeshed with multiple fields and specializations; and empathetic, born from the actual socio-political realities of a place.
Contents
Preface; Introduction: Global Perspectives in Heritage Conservation; SECTION 1 - GLOBALIZING THE CONSERVATION DISCOURSERe-examining World Heritage and Sustainable Development; Re-conceptualizing 'historic urban landscapes'; Earthquakes and Afterlives: Heritage Conservation and Seismicity; Beyond Nostalgic Appeal - The Means and Measures Dictating Heritage Management Trends in Pakistan; Formal Order Out of Informal Chaos - a New Latin American Dialogue between the Official Practice of Heritage Conservation and the Concept of Self-Organization; SECTION 2 - RE-EVALUATING AN AGING PAST Towards an integrative and empathetic heritage conservation: The Case of Kandy, Sri Lanka; Rural Cultural Landscapes and the Purposes of Heritage - the case of the Cultural Landscape of Bali Province (Indonesia); Continuing Culture and Meeting Modernity: The World Heritage Villages of Shirakawa-Go and Gokayama, Japan; Visioning Cultural Heritage and Planning: Banaras, the Cultural Capital of India.
