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Approaches to sustaining people–place bonds in conservation planning: from value-based, living heritage, to the glocal community Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Yueyi Chen, Yi-Wen Wang
This review paper explores approaches to sustaining the enduring connection between communities and heritage places in conservation planning. Amidst global overtourism, the gradual outmigration and sudden displacement of local communities from heritage places disrupt not only physical ties between people and places but also shared traditions, memories and emotional bonds. These intangible qualities
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Territorial heritage gentrification in Abdali in Amman, Jordan Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Rama Al Rabady
Having established itself as a heritage discourse, planetary gentrification is being studied in terms of how it operates in the Global South. This study focuses on the case of Abdali Amman, a significant mixed-use neighbourhood in Jordan that has experienced numerous mega-gentrification initiatives. According to Bourdieu’s theories of the state and dispositional practices, this study critically evaluates
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Assessing the socio-cultural impact of urban revitalisation using Relative Positive Impact Index (RPII) Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Shahim Abdurahiman, A. K. Kasthurba, Afifa Nuzhat
Urban heritage is a vital resource that connects communities to their local identity. Unplanned developments and rapid urbanisation often harm the authenticity of historic areas, disrupting the cultural fabric and altering their character. This study introduces the Relative Positive Impact Index (RPII), a novel technique for assessing the socio-cultural impacts of urban revitalisation. The significance
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Emergent place-identity: place activation through the architectural restoration of a small Hakka household in the Hong Kong countryside Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jimmy Tsz-wai Ho
This paper discusses the cocreation of an emergent place-identity in a Hakka household in the Hong Kong countryside triggered by architectural restoration. Located in Kuk Po, a quintessential Hakka village that was established over 300 years ago, Yeung House was restored by the research team under a government-funded initiative to regenerate architectural values. Rebuilt in 1967, Yeung House has experienced
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Temples as centres of communal networks: a case study of South Lantau Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sidney C. H. Cheung, Alex W. H. Wong
In the countryside, where intensive rural development and rising property values have been observed since the late 1970s, the preservation and meaning of traditional dwellings have emerged as crucial considerations in shaping Hong Kong’s countryside conservation policy. The focus of this paper is on the conservation of temples, as we are drawn to these structures not only for their architectural merit
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Building typology of Albanian kulla stone houses in the Balkans Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Florina Jerliu, Kaltrina Thaçi
This paper aims to establish a unified typology for the culturally significant kulla stone houses built in the cross-border region of Kosovo, Albania, and Montenegro during the 18th and 19th centuries. Despite some attempts at typological categorisation on the national level, a joint typology for this region currently needs to be improved. Based on existing literature and field research, the paper
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Assessing the performance of urban heritage conservation projects – influencing factors, aspects and priority weights Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Sunena Abdul Huq, Bimal Puthuvayi
Heritage conservation in urban areas involves complex systems often faced with the dilemmas of maintaining the built form’s historical character, improving infrastructure, and managing development through stakeholder cooperation. At present, the performance of any conservation project is solely vested in conserving the built fabric. Evaluation tools for urban heritage conservation projects do not have
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Reflections on the importance of built heritage inventory as a tool for preservation in Karachi–a case study of Wadhumal Odharam (Jail) Quarter in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Tania Ali Soomro
The cultural heritage inventory is an alternate tool to document historic buildings to establish a protected enlistment process. Recognising the importance of inventories for developing knowledge of historical and cultural patterns, multiple attempts are being made to record Karachi’s historic buildings in the form of inventory documents. This research investigates the various approaches used for inventorying
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Looking at the cultural heritage proclamations of Ethiopia: conceptualisation and management of cultural heritage Built Heritage Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mengistie Zewdu
The main purpose of this paper is to explore how the conceptualisation and management of cultural heritage have been treated in the cultural heritage proclamations of Ethiopia. The analysis of the four cultural heritage proclamations reveals that the notion of cultural heritage improves from the first to the fourth proclamation. In the first two proclamations, the term antiquity was employed, and the
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The place of the Great Mosque of Tlemcen: the paradox between patrimonialisation and appropriation Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Mohammed Chihab Selka, Imene Selka Oussadit
The Great Mosque of Tlemcen is a unique case, as it is one of the few mosques dating back to the Almoravid period that is almost intact. It has evolved in a constantly changing space and now has a conjoined public square, following an occidental configuration, which is quite rare. The size of this square suggests that it could be put to use as an additional vector for the valorisation of the mosque
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Modernist heritage and memory politics in Spain: shifting values for the adaptive reuse of Seville’s former police headquarters Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Plácido González Martínez
The political significance of modernist heritage architecture continues to be an unsolved question, particularly its identification and conservation. In Spain, the chronology of modernism stretches through the whole of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. The passing of legislation on memory politics in Spain (i.e. the 2007 Law of Historical Memory and the 2022 Law of Democratic Memory)
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A metamodel for heritage-based urban development: enabling sustainable growth through urban cultural heritage, by Matthias Ripp. Springer Cham, 2022. 209pp. ISBN9783031082375 Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Yonca Erkan
1.1 What is the book about? This article provides a review on the new publication of Matthias Ripp titled Meta-model for Heritage-based Urban Development: Enabling Sustainable Growth through Urban Cultural Heritage released by Springer in 2022. The subtitle is an inspirational, hope-giving, new perspective to heritage studies, if one puts aside the growth-based world economic systems towards development
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Reimagining local worlds: Wen village conservation and regeneration by Amateur Architecture Studio Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Xiang Ren
This article theorises the local world as a conceptual scaffold for future conservation and regeneration. It aims to catalyse a theoretical dialogue across the East and West to understand how ordinary places and lifeworlds are preserved, reproduced, and possibly reimagined. The local worlds discussed herein are conceptualised as the worlds of many, the worlds of relating, the worlds of structuring
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Urban built heritage protection and realistic dilemmas: the development process, protection system, and critical thinking of historic districts in Dalian Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Hongchi Zhang, Fenglin Wang, Fei Guo, Jun Cai, Jing Dong
In China, the northeastern region has preserved many valuable modern built heritage buildings, which are undergoing difficult exploratory protection during the industrial and urbanisation process. Taking Dalian city as a case study, this article retraces the history of Dalian’s opening up and colonial management from the perspective of urban planning and historic district protection and management
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Exploring visitors’ visual perception along the spatial sequence in temple heritage spaces by quantitative GIS methods: a case study of the Daming Temple, Yangzhou City, China Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Kai Zhou, Wenting Wu, Tianjie Li, Xiaoling Dai
The Daming Temple, built during 457–464 C.E., is one of the developing ancient temple heritage spaces located in Yangzhou city, P. R. China. Over the past 60 years, variation in visitors’ spatial perception along the tour routes in the temple has occurred. This research attempts to reveal the changes in visitors’ visual perception along the spatial sequences at 3 different times (i.e., 1962, 1973 and
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The museum method of reusing Shanghai waterfront industrial heritage: continuation and reconstruction of urban memory Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Lan Luo, Yongkang Cao
In the context of transforming traditional labour-intensive industries into the service economy in China, the reuse of industrial heritage as museums has become a trend, for example, along Shanghai waterfronts, gradually fuelling the continuation of urban memory, reshaping urban cultural identity and promoting the development of the waterfront economy. Additionally, the connotation of a museum is continually
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Identifying disappeared historic buildings of port of Callao using georeferencing Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Diego Javier Celis Estrada, Francisco Felipe Quiroz Chueca, Ruth Aracelis Manzanares Grados
The port of Callao is important for its varied historical and archaeological heritage, which includes several military buildings that were the main actors and witnesses of the colonial era of Peru (from the 16th century to the country’s independence from Spain early in the 19th century). Despite the studies that have been carried out on the basis of documents and some eventual archaeological excavations
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The development of the concept of architectural heritage conservation and its inspiration Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Wen Liang, Yahaya Ahmad, Hazrina Haja Bava Mohidin
Over recent decades, heritage conservation has developed in concept and scope. This paper uses a systematic literature review approach to collect charters and documents on heritage conservation issued by UNESCO and ICOMOS, divided into two periods, before 2000 and from 2000 to the present, for analysis from a qualitative perspective. The study results show that the scope of architectural heritage is
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Pandemic resilience and the heritage of Asian urban communities Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Jordan A. Sand
The neighbourhood in Tokyo where I lived while a student in the 1980s was a fire trap. Wood rowhouses clad with thin, untreated clapboards fronted directly on streets less than four meters across—many too narrow for a fire truck to enter. In winter, people used free-standing kerosene heaters. Houses were dilapidated, and a few displayed a worrying lean. Local authorities had plans for clearance and
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Cultural heritage management in Africa: the heritage of the colonized, edited by George Okello Abungu and Webber Ndoro. Routledge, Abingdon, 2023. 285pp. ISBN9781032055619 Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Hocine Aouchal
Cultural heritage management in Africa: the heritage of the colonized analyses and assesses African heritage management and mainly reclaims its decolonisation. It also shifts the Western former Coloniser dominant narrative of what heritage is and how to manage it; towards a local understanding of heritage and traditional management approaches, which are less divisive and more inclusive. The book is
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Correction: Analyses and architectural typology of preserved traditional mosques in the old city of Herat in Afghanistan: the case of Quzzat Quarter Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Ghulam Mohammad Asim, Hajime Shimizu
Correction : Built Heritage 6, 27 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-022-00070-0 Following publication of the original article (Asim and Shimizu 2022), the authors reported that the family name and given name were mistakenly reversed for author Hajime Shimizu in the title page submitted. The original article (Asim and Shimizu 2022) has been updated. Asim, G.M., and H. Shimizu. 2022. Analyses and
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People’s perspectives on heritage conservation and tourism development: a case study of Varanasi Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Ananya Pati, Mujahid Husain
The conservation of heritage and heritage-based tourism are interrelated activities in which the development in one can lead to the growth of the other and vice versa. In recent years, people have become increasingly aware of the importance of heritage and the necessity of its conservation. People’s knowledge and preservation of their roots and emotional attachments to traditions and places are beneficial
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Circularity-based decision-making framework for the integrated conservation of built heritage: the case of the Medina of Tunis Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Yasmine Tira, Handan Türkoğlu
Several factors overlap in making urban heritage conservation vulnerable in terms of long-term sustainability. The purpose of this study is to offer insights into the dynamic role that heritage governance plays in the current sustainability debate. This purpose is achieved by investigating the shift from a ‘governing for culture’ approach to a ‘governing through culture’ approach in heritage conservation
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Introduction: innovative heritage-based post-crisis urban recovery strategies Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Christer Gustafsson, Matthias Ripp
Resilience is a concept that has become more and more common during the last decade. Originally used in physics and psychology, just recently it has been transferred to the field of urban planning, urban development and cultural heritage. The purpose of this Special Issue of the international journal Built Heritage is to examine, and discuss, how the concept of resilience can be related to cultural
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Reconstruction of the lost colonial architecture in the context of heritage tourism: Dutch Trading Post in Taiwan Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Ping-hsiang Hsu
To strengthen brand identity, enrich tourist experiences, and promote heritage education, Taijiang National Park proposed to reconstruct Taiwan’s Dutch Trading Post in a different location from where it was initially erected in the 17th century. This paper is a case study of the reconstruction proposal for a lost colonial architectural complex in the context of heritage tourism. It discusses the practical
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Physical features and analysis of traditional mosques: the case of Quzzat quarter of Herat Old City, Afghanistan Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Ghulam Mohammad Asim, Hajime Shimizu
This study examines the physical features of traditional mosques in the Quzzat (Bardrani) quarter of Herat Old City, Afghanistan. Traditional mosques are constructed with locally available materials and are planned based on cultural and climatic conditions. Mosques are categorised as modern or traditional. Traditional mosques are divided into three subcategories: preserved, damaged (defaced), and transformed
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Scope and limitations of heritage-based resilience: some reflections from Nepal Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Neel Kamal Chapagain
Recent risk preparedness and recovery frameworks have focused in particular on the themes of heritage and resilience. It is generally agreed among heritage professionals that heritage can play an important role in postdisaster recovery and resilience. However, heritage (monuments or sites or even intangible heritage) in general is perceived as a fragile resource that needs to be saved instead of as
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Heritage and the COVID-19 pandemic: the meaning of visitation Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Cut Dewi, Matthew Rofe, Julie Nichols, Izziah Izziah
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global mobility. ‘Lockdowns’ and travel bans have been used as control measures by international governments. Consequently, the ways that we use buildings have also been impacted by these actions. Thus, this paper explores the roles of heritage sites in a post-COVID-19 pandemic society. This research is part of the Urban Heritage and Community Resilience:
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Analysis of the systematic conservation of China's petroleum industrial heritage: a case study and analysis of the petroleum industrial heritage in Daqing Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Zhimin Sun
After a century of development, China's petroleum industry has introduced numerous and various petroleum industrial heritage elements, which collectively embody the value and significance of China's petroleum industrial heritage. Currently, all levels of government departments are trying to protect petroleum industrial heritage, but only limited heritage types and elements of the petroleum industry
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Petrographic and geochemical analyses to characterise the source of built historical natural stones — a case study of the volcanic stones from historical quarries and Baoguosi Temple in the city of Ningbo, China Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Xiuwei Guo, Yawen Zhang, Xuemin Xu, Shibing Dai
Characterising and sourcing natural stones are essential for not only understanding the historical information carried by heritage buildings and cultural heritage sites, but also providing necessary data for restoration and conservations. Petrographic analyses by polarised microscopy, along with the integrated chemical data acquired by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and X-ray
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Impact of legislative precision in the management of the Casbah Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Farah Hadji, Zaki Aslan, Quenza Bougherira, Emad Mushtaha
The historic centre of Algiers (Casbah) presents a state of severe decay. Laws and legislative measures have been promulgated in the past three decades to provide an adequate framework for the conservation of the old city. This paper investigates the law and subsequent legal instruments used in heritage management and the impact of legislative provisions on the management of the living historic centre
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The impact of increased flooding caused by climate change on heritage in England and North Wales, and possible preventative measures: what could/should be done? Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Kelly Anderson
Despite 30 years of discussion, adaptation work is not routinely being carried out at heritage sites to minimise future impacts of climate change, particularly increased flooding risks. To understand barriers to essential work being carried out, interviews were carried out with six heritage sites that have already experienced river flooding to understand levels of preparation both before and after
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Public policies and conservation plans of historic urban landscapes under the sustainable heritage tourism milieu: discussions on the equilibrium model on Kulangsu Island, UNESCO World Heritage site Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Long Zhao, Yuan Li, Na Zhang, Zhenxin Zhang
The tensions and threats in historic urban landscapes brought about by heritage tourism are still regional, global, general, and dynamic issues. For Kulangsu, there is an obvious problem in the connection between the current conservation plan and public policy. To a large extent, public policy cannot effectively, specifically, and flexibly respond to the dynamic problems in the implementation of the
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A research agenda for heritage planning perspectives from Europe, edited by Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, 2021. 225pp. ISBN 9781788974622 Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Cut Dewi
In her book, uses of heritage, Laurajane Smith (2006) mentioned that heritage is a cultural process for amongst others of identity formation within a certain group of people. A closer look at her publication in critical heritage studies suggests that heritage is a work and there is no such thing as heritage without people constantly making, reinterpreting, valorising, and discussing it. The past few
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Correction: Historical imaginaries, historic urban branding, and the local state in China: rejuvenation discourse, manufactured heritage and simulacrascapes Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Andrew Malcolm Law
Correction: Built Heritage 7, 1 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-023-00083-3 Following publication of the original article (Law, 2023), the authors reported the following three errors in a citation, the references and the text: In in-text citation: “(Li and Ah, 2019)” should read: (Cheung, 2019). In References: Li, Leah Cheung, and Ah. 2019. Where the past meets the future, the politics of heritage
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Attempting to document and rehabilitate Aleppo between 1994 and 2011: the ramifications of pre-conflict built heritage mismanagement and the effects of the scarcity of documentation on options available for post-conflict conservation Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Zeido Zeido
This paper examines several aspects of the attempt at rehabilitating Aleppo and the data available about the city prior to the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011. It discusses documentation, rehabilitation and conservation practices in Aleppo, focusing on the operations between 1994 and 2011 that were coordinated by several institutions managed primarily by the Directorate of the Old City of Aleppo
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Developing an identities-based approach to support more robust resilience and recovery in heritage planning and management Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Zachary M. Jones, Théodora Pappas
Resilience has become an increasingly important concept in the cultural heritage field, particularly in the aftermath of the unprecedented challenges the COVID-19 global pandemic brought. However, on a conceptual and practical level, resilience remains closely linked to the technical conservation of built heritage, and there remains a need to develop broader approaches inclusive of cultural and socioeconomic
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Historical imaginaries, historic urban branding, and the local state in China: rejuvenation discourse, manufactured heritage and simulacrascapes Built Heritage Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Andrew Malcolm Law
This intervention examines the extant literature on historical imaginaries and historic urban branding in China. It suggests that while research in this field has increasingly moved away from an economic (or an implicit neo-Marxist) model, there is still a lack of research on the role of broader cultural and state led discourses of nationalism in the construction of historic urban imaginaries and historic
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Study on the adaptability of traditional architecture in agricultural heritage sites after tourism intervention—a case study of Huzhou Digang Food Street in China Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Wang, Ying, Sun, Yehong, Gu, Xingguo, Wu, Wenjie, Yao, Cancan
Traditional architecture in agricultural heritage sites (AHSs) embodies the livelihood of local communities and residents, which is an important part of the AHS. However, with the intervention of tourism, some of the traditional architecture in AHSs has gradually transformed into simple use for tourism, without reflecting the cultural connotations of agricultural heritage systems, as well as the farming
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Co-curating the City: Universities and urban heritage past and future, edited by Clare Melhuish, Henric Benesch, Dean Sully, and Ingrid Martins Holmberg. UCL Press, London, 2022. 337pp. ISBN 9781800081833 Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Cioboata, Sabina
Co-curating the City: Universities and urban heritage past and future explores the critical, yet under-examined, role of higher education institutions in shaping cities and influencing urban regeneration through the construction of complex heritage discourses and practices. The multifaceted contributions to the volume highlight how universities fluctuate between challenging but at times also reinforcing
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UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory, by Sally Stone. Routledge, New York, 2019. 266pp. ISBN 9781138226616 Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Malathouni, Christina
Published by Routledge in 2020, the monograph Undoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory is written by architect and educator Sally Stone. As the title suggests, the book aims to cover a very important and topical subject as it focuses on the reuse of existing buildings and therefore also relates to all the associated environmental and cultural benefits of such practices. The recent award
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Wuling Ganlan: splendid archi-tectonic legacy of Asian wooden architecture Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Xu, Han
Over the last two decades, people have realised the importance of conserving and managing cultural heritage, as heritage tourism has risen to unprecedented levels in the context of globalisation, especially in the developing world and less developed regions (Timothy and Nyaupane 2009). Indeed, these heritage landscape attractions have successfully brought income to some poor areas, while at the same
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Introduction: tourism and built heritage Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Zhang, Chaozhi
Not applicable. Not applicable. Not applicable. Authors and Affiliations School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 135 Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou, 510275, P. R. China Chaozhi ZhangAuthors Chaozhi ZhangView author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Contributions The author read and approved the final manuscript. Corresponding author Correspondence
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A metamodel for heritage-based urban recovery Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Gustafsson, Christer, Ripp, Matthias
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential transfer of a metamodel for heritage-based urban development (HBUD) in a postcrisis urban recovery scenario. After an introduction to the field of cultural heritage as a resource for urban development, the research question is elaborated, and the current understanding of urban heritage is explored. The use of the metamodel in a postcrisis urban
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A conceptual framework for understanding the intrinsic contestation of cultural heritage tourism in Chinese qiaoxiang Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Jiang, Ting
Cultural heritage in Chinese qiaoxiang is constructed where Chinese and foreign cultures gather, connecting overseas Chinese with their country of origin. However, conflicts concerning this type of heritage comes out frequently, such as house reconstruction clash, host-guest conflicts and destructive competition in heritage tourism. The economic and cultural duality of heritage is perceived as the
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Analyses and architectural typology of preserved traditional mosques in the old city of Herat in Afghanistan: the case of Quzzat Quarter Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Asim, Ghulam Mohammad, Hajime, Shimizu
The study aims to analyse the architectural typology and determine the period of construction for the preserved traditional mosques of the Quzzat Quarter in the Old City of Herat (known as the Pearl of Khorasan). Twenty-nine mosques are located in the area, three of which are modern and 26 are traditional. Twelve out of the 26 traditional mosques still exist and have preserved their traditional landscape
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The right to entrepreneurial expression over heritage significance: the micropolitics of an adapted cafe in a historic Chinese town Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Lam, Johnny F. I., Ong, Chin-Ee, Wu, Tingting, He, Rui, Li, Shougang
This study draws on Henri Lefebvre’s (The production of space, 1992, translated by D. Nicholson-Smith) concept of the spatial triad to examine the micropolitics of the production of urban and social space in a cafe in a historic tourist town in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai. Such a spatial and social examination of the historic town of Tangjiawan’s Wangchuan Cafe is conducted in the context of
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Heritage tourism evolution in Guangfu Ancient City, Hebei Province, China: an analysis with the improved creative destruction model Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Wang, Menghan, Bai, Xiaoran, Su, Mingming
Ancient cities and towns are popular tourism destinations worldwide. In this paper, Guangfu Ancient City in Yongnian County, Hebei Province, China, is taken as the case study and the modified creative destruction model is applied as the analytical framework to evaluate the multiactor dynamics of heritage tourism development. A mixed method approach is adopted, including a local resident survey, in-depth
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Khettaras in the Tafilalet oasis (Morocco): contribution to the promotion of tourism and sustainable development Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Beraaouz, Mohamed, Abioui, Mohamed, Hssaisoune, Mohammed, Martínez-Frías, Jesús
The khettaras constitute a hydraulic system for mobilising water by gravity from the water table to the surface to irrigate fields in oases. This system, which has been fairly widespread in North Africa, in particular in Algeria (foggara) and Morocco (khettaras), was introduced several centuries ago in the oases of southeastern Morocco and has continued to operate despite various natural and anthropic
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Identifying visual sensitive areas: an evaluation of view corridors to support nature-culture heritage conservation in Chiang Mai historic city Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Sukwai, Janjira, Mishima, Nobuo, Srinurak, Nattasit
The visual integrity of mountains contributing to cultural landscapes as nature-culture attributes is often obscured by the vertical intrusive built environment, especially in buffer areas of protected heritage zones. Therefore, this study argued that even low/medium-rise buildings that inappropriately appear in the horizontal visual plane could be a factor increasing sensitivity to this panoramic
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Understanding of the settlements with coexisting water and earth under the background of climate change—the case of Liang Village in Pingyao County, China Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Shao, Yong, Chen, Yue, Su, Jianming
Global climate change has caused general and serious damage to cultural heritage sites, and earthen settlements and buildings are particularly vulnerable to water-affected disasters. Thus, this paper uses Liang Village in Pingyao County, China, as a case study, linking the human–land study in the Liang Village Sino-French workshop of 2009/2010 to a disaster assessment completed after the devastating
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Is colonial heritage negative or not so much? Debating heritage discourses and selective interpretation of Kulangsu, China Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Wei, Ran, Wang, Fang
Heritage is in essence dissonant, especially colonial heritage in postcolonial nations. Via questionnaire surveys and interviews, this study investigates Kulangsu in Xiamen, China, a colonial heritage site mainly developed in the 19th and 20th centuries, to unveil the local government’s authorised heritage discourse (AHD) of the site and how tourists perceive the colonial past of Kulangsu and construct
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Colourful treasure on Shanghai’s Bund: uncovering original paint finishes in the Chinese Banking Hall of the former HSBC Building Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Schwantes, Gesa
The former HSBC Building, today occupied by Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, is one of the largest iconic buildings on the Bund in Shanghai. Designed by Palmer & Turner in the neoclassic style, the building was completed in 1923. Restoration of the interior of the Chinese Banking Hall, located within the southwestern corner of the building, is now underway. This rectangular room features four columns
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Discussion on the environmental adaptability of weather-resistant measures for earthen sites in China Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Wang, Xudong, Zhang, Bo, Guo, Qinglin, Pei, Qiangqiang
Earthen sites are important remains of past human societies. Weather-resistant measures comprise a major part of conservation efforts for earthen sites. Marked advancements in weather-resistant techniques have been made in recent years. Earthen sites are characterised by large numbers, large scales, various types, complex compositions, and diverse existing environments. Weather-resistant measures differ
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Patrimonialities: Heritage vs. Property, edited by Valdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 112pp. $20.00. ISBN: 9781108928380 Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Zhao, Yiqing
This fine book begins with a speech from French President Emmanuel Macron, who appeals for the returning of Africa cultural heritage from European museums to their places of origin, posing the long-standing question of who owns heritage. This is the tip of the iceberg of a broader discussion about the role of museums in critical heritage studies, which suggests to reflect on their new definition, bringing
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Spatial and social interaction in medieval Algerian mosques: a morphological analysis using space syntax Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Redjem, Meriem, Mazouz, Said
Medieval mosques in Algeria represent an important architectural heritage that deserves to be identified, studied and preserved. Considering the period spanning the 7th to 15th centuries, this study investigated medieval mosques in Algeria, spatially and socially, to identify the architectural genotype and to establish whether such mosques present the same topological model that governs their spatial
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Literature review on earthen vernacular heritage: contributions to a referential framework Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Carlos, Gilberto, Ribeiro, Telma, Achenza, Maddalena, de Oliveira, Cristina Cruz Ferreira, Varum, Humberto
The state of the art of earthen architecture and vernacular built heritage comprises a complex set of issues that range from fundamental problematic recognition to anthropological and cultural studies and, more recently, to technological and experimental analyses. This paper addresses the development of the field, following the milestones of the international literature and pursuing a reflective-theory
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New perspectives on World Heritage management in the GCC legislation Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Wosiński, Michał M.
New legislative acts on heritage protection have been published in several Arab Countries in the last decade. Whilst this is a positive trend in general, what remains to be seen is the factual impact of the new legislation on the pressing issues of heritage management, including the holistic and integrated approaches, monitoring, enforcement and others. This paper compares the new legislative solutions
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Climate change, coastal built heritage, and critical challenges facing the heritage law frameworks of the United States, United Kingdom, and France Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Rowberry, Ryan
Climate change poses a particular threat to the world’s unique built heritage—historic buildings, sites monuments, and museums. As preserving built heritage resources from climate change becomes a global priority, understanding the current inadequacies of legal frameworks designed to protect built heritage in coastal areas is essential. Only by identifying and examining these shortfalls can countries
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Preserving the past or past preserving: sustaining the legacy of postmodern museum architecture Built Heritage Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Armstrong, Paul J., Kapp, Paul H.
The publication of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1964 signaled the end of Modernism. The reality was that the modern movement had already jettisoned its ideological underpinnings and had become merely another ‘style.’ The avant garde architects in Europe and in North America were ready to move on and saw Postmodernism as a liberating antidote to the strictures of high Modernism. Historic