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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41693

Type

conference item

Titre

The Jamaican Bungalow, 1914-1950: Repository of social history on contemporary terrain

Langues

English

Auteurs

Pigou-Dennis, Elizabeth

Date

2005

Pages

1 p.

Titre de conférence

15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes’

Lieu de conférence

Xi'an, China

Date de conférence

17 – 21 oct 2005

Mots-clés

housing / typology / bungalow / threats / setting / town and country planning / conservation of historic monuments / vernacular architecture

Pays mentionnés

Jamaica

Monuments et sites

Vineyard Town, Kingston, Jamaica

Résumé en anglais

To date unprotected, the terrain occupied by the distinctive historic housing typology known as the Bungalow in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital city, warrants attention. This paper will be concerned specifically with the bungalow neighbourhood of Vineyard Town, which is valuable in itself, as a repository of a housing type which emerged with the expansion of the Jamaican urban middle class in the early twentieth century. This site is also valuable because it forms part of the “connective tissue” so to speak, which relates to the historic Downtown of Kingston, which has recently been declared a protected area. Thus, Vineyard Town may be regarded as a “double-setting” so to speak, as the setting of the Bungalow, and as part of the wider environs of lower, downtown Kingston.

Document joint

2-28.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)