Publicomos

Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41502

Type

conference item

Titre

Preserving the spirit of the historic city of Macao : complexity and contradiction(s)

Langues

English

Auteurs

Imon, Sharif Shams / DiStefano, Lynne D. / Lee, Ho-Yin

Date

2008

Pages

13 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

World Heritage List / preservation / spirit of place / tourists / historic town centres / conservation of historic sites / local communities / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

China

Monuments et sites

Historic Centre of Macao, China

N° Patrimoine mondial

1110

Résumé en anglais

The preservation of an historic urban area is always a complex problem for site managers who are very often concerned with only the tangible dimension of heritage; preserving the spirit of the place is seldom a priority for them. The process is particularly complex in a rapidly growing casino World Heritage city like Macao where competing development priorities coupled with constantly changingdemographics are posing a unique challenge to those responsible for the protection of the city’s cultural heritage. By drawin greferences from Macao, this paper argues that a 'preservation' approach to the protection of the spirit of a historic urban area isnot only complex but also flawed as this defeats the real meaning of the Spirit of a Place and concludes that the Spirit of a Place is not something to be 'preserved', but rather to be guided through its own evolutionary path.

Ressource intégrale

yes

Document joint

77-X5iu-182.pdf

Licence

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