Managing built heritage : the role of cultural values and significance
"This new edition examines management of built heritage through the use of values-led decision making, based on an understanding of the significance of the cultural asset. It considers how significance is assessed and used as an effective focus and driver for management strategies and processes. The authors consider key policies and procedures that need to be implemented to help ensure effective management. The book will be useful for specialists in built heritage - conservation officers, heritage managers, architects, planners, engineers and surveyors - as well as for facilities and estates managers whose building stock includes protected or designated structures or buildings in conservation or other historic areas. describes management strategies and tools for a wide range of built heritage assets a reflective and informative guide on current conservation management explains how understanding and using conservation values (significance) is essential to the protection of the built heritage uses real-life examples to draw out best practice."
eBook, English, 2015
Second edition View all formats and editions
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, 2015
Online Ressource (ix, 270 Seiten) : Illustrationen
9781118298718, 9781118298732, 9781118298749, 9781118298756, 1118298713, 111829873X, 1118298748, 1118298756
1039157321
Print version:
About the Authors 1. Introduction 2. Heritage assets Some Introductory Thoughts About Heritage Assets Heritage assets and their management implications Buffer zones and urban settings to major heritage assets Intangible heritage Owners, managers and management approaches 3. Heritage values and significance Benefits of conservation Understanding the cultural value of a place Development in the idea of values Value characterisation typologies 4. Assessing significance (practice) Establishing and analysing the origins and development of an asset Gathering evidence about significance Research and types of evidence Establishing and analysing the character, dynamics and setting of the asset Assessing community values (oral evidence) Assessing significance comparisons and relativity Some issues in value assessment 5. Using significance in management tools and processes Conservation and management plans The Management Plan Management tools for historic areas 6. Maintenance management Maintenance management 7. Significance and sustainability Sustainability, built cultural heritage and conservation values some observations 8. Conservation principles 9. Case Studies Case Study 1: Royal Dart Hotel, Kingswear, Devon, England Case Study 2: Baixa, Maputo, Mozambique Case Study 3: The Site of the Former Taunton Gaol, Taunton, Somerset, England Case Study 4: Maintaining the Commonwealth War Graves Index