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.
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