博客來The act of identifying, protecting, restoring and reusing buildings, districts and landscapes of historic and cultural significance can be an influential process of urban and socio-economic reform. The Routledge Companion on Global Heritage Conservation explores how the aspirations surrounding heritage conservation play out across nations and societies with differing governance structures, regulations and populist dispositions.
The Routledge Companion on Global Heritage Conservation gathers together contributions from an international team of academics and practitioners to demonstrate the global complexity, guises and potential of heritage conservation. Going from Tokyo to Cairo, Shenzhen to London, and Delhi to Rome, the book examines a vast range of topics that expand and re-shape the praxis of heritage conservation across the world, from indigenous habitats, urban cores, vernacular infrastructure, colonial towns, squatters, burial sites, war zones and modern landmarks, to broader concerns such as water scarcity, deforestation, social oppression, poverty, religion, immigration and politics.
This book tests the limits of heritage conservation, showing that built heritage is born from the sociopolitical realities of a place and that engaging with its conservation has the power to influence society more generally. The definitive heritage conservation research collection, this cutting edge book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars within heritage conservation, urban planning, architecture, social sciences and humanities.
