Heritage Planning Research Articles

Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India: Challenges and Responses in Cultural Heritage Planning and Design

Champaner-Pavagadh, 47 kilometres, northeast of Baroda in Gujarat, India received the World Heritage status in 2004. The site is immense, spreading over six square kilometres, and covers the partially buried fifteenth century Islamic capital city of Champaner and the sacred hill, Pavagadh, a regional pilgrim centre to the Hindus. Small communities live amidst ruins in Champaner, farming and grazing the available land, and on plateaus of Pavagadh hill, catering to the heavy pilgrim traffic. The presence of local communities and short visits by over two million pilgrims to the hill annually adds a significant dimension in cultural heritage planning. Given the site’s many cultural layers, its complex land ownership patterns, and its degraded ecosystem, coupled with lack of adequate legislative framework that can back planning measures, the challenges lie in preserving the neglected and time-ravaged historic monuments, conserving cultural landscape of the sacred sites that receive intense use, protecting the livelihood of local communities, and developing the area as a whole for responsible heritage tourism.

The use of soil data in natural heritage planning and management

The use of soil data in natural heritage planning and management

The use of soil data in natural heritage planning and management

Abstract. Native woodland restoration is a conservation priority within the UK and there is an increasing awareness that a long‐term strategy is required to guide this process. A GIS‐based modelling approach has been developed, which links site conditions as expressed in an integrated soil and land cover dataset with the site requirements for different woodland types. There are three important aspects to the model – the parameter weightings, the added value of the integrated dataset, and the woodland categories which are described and predicted. The initial quantitative and qualitative validation has been encouraging although more is required and planned. The results indicate that for broad strategic planning purposes, predictions of woodland potential are not improved significantly when climatic factors are incorporated. The concept that soil acts as an integrator of other environmental variables is discussed alongside the practical application of the model by a range of users.

More than Archaeology: Developing Comprehensive Approaches to Aboriginal Heritage Management in NSW

In NSW there is an increasing impetus for Aboriginal cultural interests to be factored into key aspects of environmental planning such as regional vegetation management. This creates many challenges, as long established methods of cultural heritage assessment based on an archaeological analysis of pre-contact sites cannot encompass all of the issues that this change represents. In contrast, creating a link between natural and cultural heritage planning requires consideration of historic and contemporary attachments to land, ongoing cultural practices and the sharing of knowledge. This article explores some of the implications of this shift for land management in NSW. Practical research conducted by the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service with Aboriginal people is used to illustrate values associated with biodiversity that will need to be considered by planning bodies.

Urban Renewal, Heritage Planning and the Remaking of an Inner-city Suburb: A Case Study of Heritage Planning in Auckland, New Zealand

Urban Renewal, Heritage Planning and the Remaking of an Inner-city Suburb: A Case Study of Heritage Planning in Auckland, New Zealand

A model-based approach to unravelling naval defence heritage: supply- and demand-side issues in Portsmouth's coastal zone

The paper explores the nebulous concept of heritage in order to highlight issues relevant to the revitalisation and management of historic naval waterfronts. A model separating supply and demand sides, and further subdividing each side into political, social and economic structures, is used as a framework for analysis. The whole is set within a perceptual filter, and interpretation is subsumed within social structure. The model is applied to heritage concepts at Portsmouth Dockyard and to the legacy of naval defence in the neighbouring coastal zone. From the review of all three structures it is shown that economic considerations are increasingly powerful on both the supply and demand sides, as sovereignity passes to customers who are less interested in authenticity and architectural quality than in securing value for money. Issues and implications arising from this trend, and relevant to naval heritage planning and management, are identified.

Old cities, new pasts: heritage planning in selected cities of Central Europe

Heritage is the contemporary usage of a past and is consciously shaped from history, its survivals and memories, in response to current needs for it. If these needs and consequent roles of heritage, whether for the political legitimacy of governments, for social and ethnic cohesion, for individual identification with places and groups, or for the provision of economic resources in heritage industries change rapidly, then clearly we expect the content and management of that heritage to do likewise. The cities of Central Europe have long been the heritage showcases that reflected the complex historical and geographical patterns of the region's changing governments and ideologies. The abrupt economic and political transition and reorientation of the countries of Central Europe has thus, unsurprisingly, led to many equally abrupt changes in the content and management of urban heritage throughout the region. The uses made of heritage are clearly drastically changing but so also is the way that heritage is currently managed. What is happening, as well as how, is however uncertain and investigated here. The revolutionary eradication of a rejected past, a return to some previous pasts or the beginnings of a new past in the service of a new present are all possibilities. Answers are sought to these questions through the examination of a selection of cases of types of heritage city and their management in the region. These include an archetypical European gem city (Eger, Hungary), a tourist-historic honey-pot (Cesky Krumlov, Czechia), a medium-sized multifunctional city (Gdansk, Poland), a major metropolis (Budapest, Hungary), the relict anomaly (Kaliningrad/ Konigsberg, Russia) and the national cultural centre of Weimar.

Political context and professional ideologies: French urban conservation planning transferred to the Médina of Tunis

The present paper discusses the transfer and adaptation of French urban conservation plans and other planning instruments for the Medina (old city) of Tunis and traces out the development of the ideologies of the picturesque and the nation which underpin planner discourse on the Médina. Under the French protectorate, (1881–1956), attempts were made to protect the built fabric of the Médina using heritage conservation plans. In the immediate post‐colonial period (1956–66), the original residents departed to be replaced by rural migrants. Urban decay prompted the creation of a Médina planning body, the Association Sauvegarde de la Médina de Tunis (ASM), which in its early years fought demolition schemes. With the successful implementation of two reconstruction operations (late 1980s) and a major slum clearance operation under way (early 1990s to the present), there is a general shift in the image of the Médina, with a conservation area plan now receiving official support. On the basis of interviews with planners and architects working on projects in the Médina, the paper examines attitudes and ideologies towards Tunis’ built heritage and instruments available or to be developed for its protection. A clear shift is observable from the early 1970s, when the ASM team was motivated by vigorous debates on the nature of planning for the Médina, to the mid‐1990s, when architect‐planners, no longer working in a multi‐disciplinary team, are chiefly involved in implementing programmes germinating in the political hierarchy ‐ and hence gain room to act by working in close harness with the paternalistic State.

Heritage Planning in Post-Doi Moi Hanoi: The National and International Contributions

Abstract Economic stagnation has minimized redevelopment pressures so that Hanoi's Old Sector remains largely intact. Its protection is important for the national and local economies and as part of Vietnam's cultural policy. The 1986 introduction of the doi moi policies in Hanoi has led to rapid environmental change, now exacerbated by the lifting of the United States-led trade embargo. Threats to Hanoi's distinctive character have prompted planning interventions by international agencies, foreign governments, and Vietnamese authorities. However, critical planning tasks still await action. It is not clear that the political will exists to strike a balance between economic growth and protection of Hanoi's built heritage.

More groups push for cuts in federal R&D

Two more groups—the Heritage Foundation and Citizens Against Government Waste—have weighed in with plans to cut the federal government. The foundation, a conservative-oriented Washington, D.C, think tank, has issued a radical proposal calling for, among other things, cutting the number of Cabinet departments from 14 to five: Defense, Health & Human Services, Justice, Treasury, and State. Agriculture would be downgraded to independent agency status. So would Interior—which would join the Environmental Protection Agency in a new Bureau of Natural Resources. Under Heritage's plan, slimming the federal government means slimming federal research. For example, in the process of transforming USDA into a Bureau of Agriculture, overall funding for a merged Agricultural Research Service and a Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service would drop 50% to $800 million. Neither the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) nor the Technology Administration would survive elimination of the Comme...

State of Washington Natural Heritage Plan, by Washington Natural Heritage Program [Review

State of Washington Natural Heritage Plan, by Washington Natural Heritage Program [Review

Heritage Planning and Management Course

Heritage Planning and Management Course

Hacia una conservación arqueológica social en Barcelona

Este artículo busca explorar la relación existente entre las políticas culturales aplicables y los habitantes de aquellos espacios urbanos del centro de Barcelona que cuentan con yacimientos arqueológicos, como la zona de Sotstinent Navarro. Este estudio enfocará el concepto de conservación en dos perspectivas. Por una parte el papel que desempeña la conservación entendida como gestión de patrimonio, por otra, cómo ella en sí misma se puede entender como una herramienta para la inclusión. También analizaré brevemente el estado de la cuestión en el Estado Español ilustrandomi análisis con ejemplos provenientes de distintos paisajes urbanos arqueológicos de Barcelona. A través de este texto determinaremos cómo la participación es una herramienta poderosa y a la que se pueden aplicar distintos usos a lo largo del tiempo, analizando la posición de las distintas partes interesadas en estos procesos. Esta investigación estará basada en distintos trabajos y líneas de estudio de Patrimonio Cultural, pero también en la Arqueología Comunitaria; uniendo estas dos disciplinas dentro de lo que algunos autores han denominado “sostenibilidad social” o “autososteniblidad”, aplicada a paisajes arqueológicos urbanos. A lo largo de este texto se busca asentar un marco teórico para lo que creemos será el futuro de una conservación guiada por la comunidad, dando lugar a una metodología que debe ser considerada en los planes de gestión aplicados en la arqueología urbana, que permitan el incremento del beneficio social de los habitantes de estos espacios.

Vila Ferroviária de Paranapiacaba: patrimônio, identidade e imagem como motores de desenvolvimento

A atividade turística apresenta-se atualmente como meio de preservação das identidades locais, e forma de valorização do lugar. A Vila Ferroviária de Paranapiacaba exemplifica a busca do desenvolvimento e valorização do patrimônio cultural por meio do turismo. A Vila centenária busca desde 1999, mediante a ação da municipalidade de Santo André e a implementação de planos embasados em ferramentas como o “marketing do lugar”, recuperar e preservar o conjunto arquitetônico, urbanístico e ambiental, patrimônio tombado nas três instâncias: federal, estadual e municipal. O trabalho analisa criticamente o “Plano Patrimônio” (2003), documento-base para conduzir ações significativas com o objetivo de alcançar as finalidades apontadas, bem como analisa a eficácia do Plano como fundamento de política urbana que logra incentivar o desenvolvimento local por meio da recuperação do patrimônio.