03008 a2200469 4500 1317332938 20250317111633.0 250312042019GB 125 eng 9781317332930 Taylor & Francis GBP 43.99 BB 01 eng TNKX thema GLZ thema JBCC thema GTM thema AM thema JHM thema JBSD thema 1F bisac 1DT bisac TNKX bic GM bic JFC bic GTB bic AM bic JHM bic JFSG bic 1F bisac 1DV bisac ARC014000 bisac ARC000000 bisac HIS037000 bisac 363.69 bisac Vinayak Bharne Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation 1 Oxford Routledge 20190212 530 p The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at its best, a reflective and consequential process of urban and socio-economic reform. It has the potential to reconcile conflicting memories, meanings, and cultural tensions, bridging and expanding the perceived boundaries of multiple disciplines towards bigger aspirations of city-making and social justice. How and where do such aspirations overlap and differ across nations and societies across the world? In places with different histories, governance structures, regulatory stringency, and populist dispositions, who are the specific players, and what are the actual processes that bring about bigger and deeper change beyond just the conservation of an architectural or urban entity of perceived value? This collection of scholarly articles by theorists, academics, and practitioners explores the global complexity, guises, and potential of heritage conservation. Going from Tokyo to Cairo, Shenzhen to Rome, and Delhi to Moscow, this volume examines a vast range of topics – indigenous habitats, urban cores, vernacular infrastructure, colonial towns, squatters, burial sites, war zones, and modern landmarks. It surfaces numerous inherent issues – water stress, deforestation, social oppression, poverty, religion, immigration, and polity, expanding the definitions of heritage conservation as both a professional discipline and socio-cultural catalyst. This book argues that the intellectual and praxis limits of heritage conservation – as the agency of reading, defining, and intervening with built heritage – can be expansive, aimed at bigger positive change beyond a specific subject or object; plural, enmeshed with multiple fields and specializations; and empathetic, born from the actual socio-political realities of a place. Trudi Sandmeier B01 6917 6917