Articles

The Political Heritage of Textile Districts: Shanghai and Mumbai

This article examines the evolution of mill districts in Shanghai and Mumbai across the 20^th century as cases of political heritage—in which the socio-spatial formations of factory and neighbourhood produced new ...

Authors: Mark W. Frazier

The Promotion of Building Culture in Rural Germany

Over the past two decades, building culture has increasingly caught the attention of the architectural and planning professions. The building culture is to be understood in the broadest sense as the sum of all...

Authors: Xiaoping Xie and Tobias Krüger

Tourism and Rural Heritage: A Win-Win Relation? The Conditions of Heritage Making in Touristic Rural Regions

The relationship between heritage and rural development takes place within the heritage making process. It presents different characteristics of what exists in urban context, especially through the role that c...

Authors: Alain Bourdin, Tingting Wan and Philippe Delbos

New Lives, New Landscapes. Landscape, Heritage and Rural Revitalisation: Whose Cultural Values?

Worldwide interest in the cultural landscape concept—covering rural and urban spheres—is now a major theme in considerations of the management of cultural heritage places. The roots of this interconnection lie...

Authors: Ken Taylor

Safeguarding Traditional Villages in China: The Role and Challenges of Rural Heritage Preservation

Since the reform and opening-up policy of 1978, China has established the double-track inventory system of rural heritage preservation to cope with the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural areas. This paper a...

Authors: Mengyuan Zhou, Songfeng Chu and Xiaofan Du

When Heritage Is Rural: Environmental Conservation, Cultural Interpretation and Rural Renaissance in Chinese Listed Villages

This article argues that China’s growing attention towards villages in recent years has contributed to transforming the concept of built heritage and helped in disseminating a holistic idea of territory that h...

Authors: Anna-Paola Pola

Conservation Design for Traditional Agricultural Villages: A Case Study of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama in Japan

Agricultural villages in Japan are declining and disappearing rapidly. When an agricultural village goes extinct, its tradition and culture die as well. Conserving agricultural villages as cultural heritage si...

Authors: Nobu Kuroda

Rural Heritage: Value, Conservation and Revitalisation—From the Perspective of the Human-Land Relationship

Today, rural revitalisation has become a national issue for China, and it is one that many countries also have to face. However, a rural area is not some wilderness that is open to any type of development. The...

Authors: Xiaofan Du and Ding Shi

Sacrificial Protection for Architectural Heritage Conservation and Preliminary Approaches to Restore Historic Fair-Faced Brick Façades in China

Sacrificial protection is a kind of active preventive intervention to conserve authentic fabric of architectural heritage, especially surfaces. This paper investigates the term of sacrificial protection and te...

Authors: Shibing Dai and Yan Zhong

Modernised Traditional Lime Plasters for Modern Historic Living of Built Heritage: Case Studies from Germany and Reflection for China

Traditional plasters were generally produced until about the middle of the 20^th century. Among traditional plasters, lime plaster in Europe occupies a position of outstanding importance. Plasters play a key role ...

Authors: Tanja Dettmering

Cooperative Historic Landscape Rejuvenation in China: The Litchi Bay Project in Guangzhou

This article introduces the Litchi Bay Canal Project, a recent cooperative historic landscape rejuvenation in Guangzhou, China. The Litchi Bay Canal and the Sai Kwan Literary Pagoda were at the core of Litchi ...

Authors: Jiang Feng and Ke Chen

PAX—Patios de la Axerquía Urban Regeneration and Social Innovation in a Heritage Context

Following a decades-long real estate bubble involving a culture of indiscriminate ownership and occupation of land, PAX—Patios de la Axerquía is proposing an innovative system of governance in the city of Córd...

Authors: Gaia Redaelli

Assessment of the Catalytic Effects of Transforming Industrial Heritage: Case Study of Sanbao Street Industrial Historic District in Changzhou

Transforming industrial heritage will have internal economic and cultural effects and will also catalyse changes in surrounding urban areas. Transforming industrial heritage is therefore an essential part of s...

Authors: Miao Sun, Zhenyu Li and Lu Huang

Transplantation to Localisation: The Importation of Western Structural Technologies in Modern Shanghai Architecture Based on a Study of the Bund Buildings, 1843–1943

Shanghai’s modern architectural heritage in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries is an essential aspect of modern Chinese architectural history because of its outstanding characteristics and well-preserved condition...

Authors: Peng Zhang and Yijiao Yang

Introduction to the Special Focus Column

Authors: Shibing Dai and Peng Zhang

The Agricultural Heritage Value of the Polder System in Gaochun, Nanjing

Polder is a unique form of reclaimed farmland steeped in human history of long-term adaptation to nature. It embodies traditional agricultural technologies, water conservancy technologies and the culture of th...

Authors: Bohan Tang, Xuqiang Zhan and Jie Zhang

Applications of Non-destructive Tests for Diagnosis of Heritage Buildings: Case Studies from Singapore and Malaysia

Non-destructive tests have been increasingly used in historic buildings not only for pre-restoration investigation but also as useful tools to evaluate the effectiveness of eventual interventions. These tests ...

Authors: Chung Wan Wong

The Historic Urban Landscape and the Metropolis

The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) recommendation adopted by UNESCO in 2011 provides a holistic approach based on landscape planning principles. It is in line with the International Guidelines for Urban and Te...

Authors: Eric Huybrechts

The Way Forward with Historic Urban Landscape Approach Towards Sustainable Urban Development

The pace of urbanisation, with the increase in the number of metropolitan areas, has been paralleled with the heritage discourse of past generations that valorises monuments in isolation, and has pushed the ap...

Authors: Yonca Erkan

Conceptualising Intangible Heritage in Urban Environments: Challenges for Implementing the HUL Recommendation

The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Recommendation (UNESCO 2011) suggests that heritage management should be holistic, integrated, people-centred and focused on sustainable development goals. Both tangible and ...

Authors: Harriet Jane Deacon

Mapping the Past with Present Digital Tools: Historic Urban Landscape Research in Chinese City, Xi’an Walled City Area

In 2015, the Study of Xi’an Historic Walled City Regeneration Strategy applied the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Approach through experimenting and testing digital technologies following recommended action st...

Authors: Xi Wang, Feng Han, Xiaozhe Bian and Zhifeng Li

Impact Assessments for Urban World Heritage: European Experiences under Scrutiny

In the context of the broadening understanding of urban heritage, including the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and related United Nations agendas such as the 2030 Sustainable Developme...

Authors: Dennis Rodwell and Michael Turner

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The Future Has Other Plans: Planning Holistically to Conserve Natural and Cultural Heritage, Jonathan M. Kohl and Stephen F. McCool. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2016. 320pp. $44.95. ISBN 978-1-6827-5000-1

Authors: Ryan Leonard Sharp

Modern Heritage, the Other, and the Anthropocene

The 20^th century was modernism’s century; a comparatively fleeting moment in which the human race’s transition to an urbanised species created an entirely new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The existential c...

Authors: Edward Denison

Cultural Landscapes Link to Nature: Learning from Satoyama and Satoumi

The nature–culture divide is an artificial separation consolidated by Western modern science. It is a social construction that disseminated globally, but does not exist in some non-Western societies. Abandonin...

Authors: Maya Ishizawa

Repositioning Urban Heritage—Setting the Scene

International conventions, charters and recommendations tend to follow trends and are generally reactive to contemporary circumstances; the debates on urban heritage are no exception. These texts need to be re...

Authors: Michael Turner

Documenting Heritage at Risk: Vernacular Farm Houses in the Eastern Tibetan Cultural Region

Tibetan architecture is largely associated with the impressive monastic buildings scattered over the Tibetan Plateau and the adjoining mountain ranges. While these buildings have long attracted the interest fr...

Authors: Peter Herrle and Anna Wozniak

World Heritage Cultural Landscapes: An Old or a New Concept for China?

The term ‘cultural landscape’ has many different meanings for different people throughout the world. It has been widely circulated since the international recognition of cultural landscapes extended to World H...

Authors: Feng Han

Connecting Concepts of Cultural Landscape and Historic Urban Landscape: The Politics of Similarity

This paper projects the concept of cultural landscapes into the realm of urban conservation in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) paradigm. To do this I take an historical overview of how, durin...

Authors: Ken Taylor

The Historical Value and Contemporary Role of Vernacular Wisdom: The Case of Zengchong Village

Vernacular heritage embodies the great wisdom used by the ancients over thousands of years to create their habitats. By adhering to vernacular wisdom, the unique production modes and lifestyles shown in vernac...

Authors: Yong Shao and Le Zhang

Urban Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula, the Experiences of Jeddah and Dubai

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates feature ultra-modern cities with millions of residents that developed in opposition to the physical patterns of traditional historical settlements. In the past years, ...

Authors: Simone Ricca

Rural Landscape as Heritage: Reasons for and Implications of Principles Concerning Rural Landscapes as Heritage ICOMOS-IFLA 2017

In 2011, the ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL) began the World Rural Landscapes Initiative (WRLI) project to develop a complete and systematic approach to cultural h...

Authors: Lionella Scazzosi

Evolving Values and How They Have Shaped the United States National Park System

As one of the oldest and best-known park systems, the US National Park System continues to influence park systems around the world. However, the origins and wide diversity of US national parks are often not fu...

Authors: Cari Goetcheus, Nora J. Mitchell and Brenda Barrett

Cultural Landscape in World Heritage Conservation and Cultural Landscape Conservation Challenges in Asia

UNESCO was the first United Nations agency to deal with landscapes at a global scale, notably through the World Heritage Convention. In 1992, Cultural Landscapes’ became a new category on the World Heritage Li...

Authors: Mechtild Rössler and Roland Chih-Hung Lin

Introduction to the Special Focus Column

Authors: Feng Han

Industrial Heritage Valorisation and Creative Industry Proliferation in Shanghai’s Urban Regeneration

While industrial manufacturing is giving way to the creative economy in the 21^st century, Shanghai—similar to many major cities around the world—is keen to bolster a stronger economy and increase its competitiven...

Authors: Yi-Wen Wang and Xiangyi Wang

Recent Efforts in Conserving 20^th-Century Heritage: The Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative

Over the last 25 years the conservation of 20^th-century heritage has developed into a distinct area of practice, catalysed by the efforts of dedicated international and local interest groups and the forward think...

Authors: Susan MacDonald, Sheridan Burke, Sara Lardinois and Chandler McCoy

Heritage Agencies and the Conservation of Brazilian Modern Masterpieces: A Partial Report

Heritage agencies have been protecting modern architecture in Brazil since 1948, starting with Oscar Niemeyer’s Pampulha Chapel. So far 75 modern works have been listed mostly because of their artistic value. ...

Authors: Carlos Eduardo Dias Comas

Modern Built Heritage Conservation Policies: How to Keep Authenticity and Emotion in the Age of Digital Culture

The Modern Movement has demonstrated its long-term legitimacy as a lasting concept endowed with longevity. Relating technology, spatial form and social commitment to one another, through an optimistic faith in...

Authors: Ana Tostões

Keeping It Modern: A Getty Foundation Initiative to Preserve 20^th-Century Architecture

Authors: Antoine Wilmering

An Encyclopedic Approach to the Conservation of 20^th-Century Architecture

The built heritage of the 20^th century concerns society in general: it is the background to everyday life and the stage of ‘past experience’. Therefore, recent past buildings should not be considered merely for t...

Authors: Roberta Grignolo

West of Japan/East of Europe: Translating Architectural Legacies and the Case of Bruno Taut’s Hyuga Villa

Based on communications presented at the international symposium ‘West of Japan/East of Europe’, hosted by the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in concomitance with the exhibit...

Authors: Paolo Scrivano and Marco Capitanio

The Preservation of 20^th-Century Architectural Heritage in China: Evolution and Prospects

This article examines the fundamental meaning of 20^th-century architectural heritage by reviewing the formation of the concept by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). It analyses the current...

Authors: Song Zhang

The Recent Past Comes of Age. 20^th-Century Heritage: Agency, Challenges and Motivations

Authors: Plácido González Martínez

Twenty-two Cities: Planning the Historic City 1946–2000

Authors: Plácido González Martínez

Restoration as a Social Cohesion Instrument: Vila Itororó in Central São Paulo

Recently, the restoration work of Vila Itororó—an architectural complex in central São Paulo, built around the 1920s, has been carried out, enabling applied field research for restoration as well as for histor...

Authors: Benjamim Saviani

On Technology and Ritual of Chuandou House Construction in Southwest China: The Case of Dong Minority Area

This study is based on field work conducted in the mountainous countryside of Dong minority area, southwest China, where the custom of chuandou house construction has been preserved relatively completely. In this...

Authors: Congcong Ren, Ruchen Bian and Simiao Li

The Historical Information of the Decorative Polychrome Painting in the Hall of Mental Cultivation Complex, Forbidden City

This paper analyses the decorative polychrome painting of architectural members (caihua) that has survived in the Hall of Mental Cultivation (Yangxindian) in the Forbidden City, Beijing. Beginning with the Yongzh...

Authors: Hong Yang, Jiawei Xie and Lifang Ji

Introduction to the Special Focus Column

Authors: Subin Xu