Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 10548
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138845732
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The research process: cities provide the locale for many significant contemporary issues –exponential population growth, rapid urban development/re-development, the engulfing of surrounding agricultural and recreational land, uncontrolled mass tourism and social exclusion, and unequal access to socio-economic opportunities. These issues impact dramatically on the conservation and management of urban heritage. Yet, at the same time, the sensitive management of urban heritage may be part of the solution to these city problems.
This volume of commissioned papers discusses these two aspects of the heritage versus development dilemma. It focuses on innovative approaches to managing developmental pressures, as well as how taking an ethical, inclusive and holistic approach to urban planning and heritage conservation may create a stronger basis for the sustainable future growth of cities. Contributions from an international group of authors, including practitioners as well as leading academics, deliver a broad and balanced coverage of this topic.
The research insight: the volume notes the contradictions within international narratives and guidance; the inadequacy of internationally agreed concepts, such as sustainable development, and their operationalisation as well as the exclusionary nature of policies and programmes for urban conservation and development. Too often heritage destruction is carried in the name of modernity and progress and against the wishes of local communities for whom heritage is a valued part of their environment and a manifestation of their identity. Local people are left out of discussions about the future of their places and innovative grassroots approaches to development pressures faced by urban heritage are seldom considered. Despite these shortcomings, some papers present some approaches where cultural heritage has been valorised socially and economically in urban settings and effectively protected through urban planning policies and programmes. New concepts and mechanisms are discussed, including the Historic Urban Landscape, social capital formation as well as heritage impact assessment.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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