Votre ressource mondiale sur le patrimoine
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Notice (permalien)
Réf.
42316
Type
conference item
Titre
Space is not nothing : heritage aesthetics and the struggle for space
Langues
English
Auteurs
Yousif, Anita
Date
21/05/2012
Pages
p. 77-84
Titre de conférence
ICOMOS 17th General Assembly
Lieu de conférence
Paris, France
Date de conférence
2011-11-27 / 2011-12-02
Mots-clés
rural landscapes / cultural landscapes / aesthetics
Pays mentionnés
Australia / China
Monuments et sites
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou, China / Canberra, Australia
N° Patrimoine mondial
1334
Résumé en anglais
The paper explores government encouraged industrial developments in the name of climate change mitigation and the impacts on the aesthetic and social values of rural cultural landscapes and rural lifestyles. The squandering of space and the disruption of spatial scale is also considered and discussed with regard to cultural landscapes. Examples of urban and rural landscapes are presented with an analysis of the effectiveness of heritage listings and the at times unjust and the arduous plight forced on rural communities by development impacts. The paper questions and discusses:
(a)the role of aesthetics in the outstanding universal, national and local value of cultural landscapes, the scope of aesthetic value and how it has been applied to identify cultural landscape values in different countries;
(b)the attempts but apparent failure of the cultural heritage discipline to provide adequate measures to establish the strength of cultural capital in the competing demands on the resource of physical space; and
(c)the big picture and constructive approaches to improve the status of rural cultural landscapes and assist rural communities continue their lifestyle.
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)