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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41718

Type

conference item

Titre

Peripheral vision: Implications of spatial contextualisation for communities surrounding heritage sites

Langues

English

Auteurs

Butland, Rowena

Date

2005

Pages

10 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

historic monuments and sites / setting / archaeological heritage / World Heritage Sites / conservation of historic sites / management / World Heritage List / surroundings of historic monuments

Pays mentionnés

Cambodia

Monuments et sites

Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia

N° Patrimoine mondial

668

Résumé en anglais

By recognising the importance of a setting or spatial context for heritage sites, the interests of cultural heritage managers often extend beyond the conventionally defined borders inscribed on a heritage list. The impacts of heritage management practices on populations that live within the bounds of heritage sites are understood in broad terms, but the impacts of these processes on the wider area that forms the spatial context of a heritage site remain poorly understood.The Angkor World Heritage Site (Cambodia) is an ideal case study to investigate the implications of spatially contextualising heritage. As a condition of the site’s inscription on the World Heritage List (1992), a modern management scheme was established that sought to create an Angkor ‘experience’. Angkor was contextualised within the wider landscape, in part, by exerting considerable control on post civil-war development outside the confines of the heritage site (primarily the town of Siem Reap). Through the adoption of participatory methodologies and GIS-based spatial analysis that allow integration of local community and management perspectives, the study seeks firstly to define - spatially and descriptively – the setting of the Angkor World Heritage Site. It then explores the implica
tions of heritage management for the modern landscape surrounding Angkor.

Document joint

3-11.pdf

Licence

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