Abstract

The need to better care for the urban landscape as a cultural, material and regenerative resource is urgent and inevitable. From a planning and design perspective, national heritage characterisation tools currently constitute an explicit point of departure for attributing value to existing urban landscapes, which informs decisions about physical transformations. This qualitative and integrative review focuses on international recommendations and on the ability of national characterisation tools to address ‘relational character’, meaning the interconnectedness of architecture with its situated environment, people and place, atmosphere and the sensory. Although international heritage institutions pledge to include relational character, in our search of state-of-the-art and exploratory approaches to relational character both nationally and regionally, we find that few such tools incorporate relational character, and those that do provide different emphases. We conclude that heritage characterisation tools are not yet sufficiently developed to address existing urban landscapes from a relational perspective.

摘要

更好地保护城市景观作为文化、物质和再生资源的需要是迫切且不可避免的。从规划和设计的角度来看，国家遗产特征描述工具目前构成了为现有城市景观赋予价值的明确出发点，为有关物理改造的决策提供了信息。这种定性和综合审查的重点是国际建议和国家特征工具解决“关系特征”的能力，即建筑与其所处环境、人和地点、氛围和感官的相互联系。尽管国际遗产机构承诺将关系特征纳入其中，但在我们寻求国家和地区关系特征的最先进和探索性方法时，我们发现很少有这样的工具包含关系特征，而那些确实提供了不同侧重点的工具。我们的结论是，遗产表征工具尚未充分发展，无法从关系角度处理现有的城市景观。