
Valuing World Heritage Cities
Tanja Vahtikari(Autor*in)
Routledge (Verlag)
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 18. November 2016
Buch
Hardcover
234 Seiten
978-1-4724-6102-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism. While it is the national governments that nominate sites for inclusion in the World Heritage List, and the intergovernmental World Heritage Committee that makes the final decision on inclusion or non-inclusion, it is the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) for cultural heritage that determines whether the necessary level of 'outstanding universal value' is met.
Focusing on the discourses of ICOMOS and their transmission to the local context, this book is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities illustrated through a case study of Old Rauma in Finland. The book contributes to the understanding of the discursive and constructed nature of World Heritage values as opposed to intrinsic values, critically scrutinizes the role of ICOMOS in making valuations concerning urban heritage, and sheds light on the interactions and tensions of universal and local (urban) perspectives in the practice of heritage valuation.
Valuing World Heritage Cities is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities in the transnational discourses of heritage. This unique and timely contribution will be of interest to scholars and students working in Heritage Studies, Cultural Geography, Urban Studies and Tourism.
Focusing on the discourses of ICOMOS and their transmission to the local context, this book is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities illustrated through a case study of Old Rauma in Finland. The book contributes to the understanding of the discursive and constructed nature of World Heritage values as opposed to intrinsic values, critically scrutinizes the role of ICOMOS in making valuations concerning urban heritage, and sheds light on the interactions and tensions of universal and local (urban) perspectives in the practice of heritage valuation.
Valuing World Heritage Cities is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities in the transnational discourses of heritage. This unique and timely contribution will be of interest to scholars and students working in Heritage Studies, Cultural Geography, Urban Studies and Tourism.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
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9 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 5 s/w Zeichnungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
Gewicht
537 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4724-6102-5 (9781472461025)
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Tanja Vahtikari is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research at the University of Tampere, Finland.
Inhalt
1 Introduction
2 Intrinsic value, uncontestable expertise: ICOMOS, UNESCO and outstanding universal value
3 Catching up with "the spirit of the moment"
4 World Heritage cities: which urban pasts? Whose urban histories?
5 World Heritage cities: what urban futures?
6 Outstanding universal value and the local narrative of place and heritage: Old Rauma
7 Conclusions
2 Intrinsic value, uncontestable expertise: ICOMOS, UNESCO and outstanding universal value
3 Catching up with "the spirit of the moment"
4 World Heritage cities: which urban pasts? Whose urban histories?
5 World Heritage cities: what urban futures?
6 Outstanding universal value and the local narrative of place and heritage: Old Rauma
7 Conclusions