In the context of the broadening understanding of urban heritage,including the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and related United Nations agendas such as the 2030 Sustainable Devel...In the context of the broadening understanding of urban heritage,including the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and related United Nations agendas such as the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda,this article questions the relevance of limited-focused impact assessments as a tool for the holistic management of complex urban sites in the 21st century.The article identifies pitfalls in the use of such assessments,illustrating this principally with two cases in which retrospective assessments were undertaken post-inscription in an attempt to address conflicting interests:the visual impact study for Dresden Elbe Valley,inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004 and delisted in 2009;and the three impact assessments for Liverpool Maritime Mercantile World Heritage Site,also inscribed in 2004,and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger continuously since 2012.The article identifies critical missing elements that are inherent in discrete assessments,and provides indicators for practical tools with relevant applicability.展开更多
International conventions,charters and recommendations tend to follow trends and are generally reactive to contemporary circumstances;the debates on urban heritage are no exception.These texts need to be read in the p...International conventions,charters and recommendations tend to follow trends and are generally reactive to contemporary circumstances;the debates on urban heritage are no exception.These texts need to be read in the perspective of socio-economic and environmental considerations of their time together with their inter-dependence on other disciplines.The dramatic changes to our urban conurbations have included environmental degradation,the complexities of migrations and socio-economic transformations.Addressing these major concerns in managing urban heritage highlights the necessity for cross-disciplinarity in research and the need for adopting a more integrative attitude in the planning processes.Applying the General System Theory by the biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy brings a systematic,holistic methodology from the realms of modern science into extending the historic centre and the city with a territorial approach of the metropolis allowing for sustainable and resilient rural and urban linkages.This article brings together seven contributions on issues affecting the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape The potential of the digital revolution is in the capacity of recognizing the speed and rapidity of change,and the mega-data available as affecting our lives and environment together with the role of history,tradition and continuity in linking the past to the future.展开更多
文摘In the context of the broadening understanding of urban heritage,including the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and related United Nations agendas such as the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda,this article questions the relevance of limited-focused impact assessments as a tool for the holistic management of complex urban sites in the 21st century.The article identifies pitfalls in the use of such assessments,illustrating this principally with two cases in which retrospective assessments were undertaken post-inscription in an attempt to address conflicting interests:the visual impact study for Dresden Elbe Valley,inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004 and delisted in 2009;and the three impact assessments for Liverpool Maritime Mercantile World Heritage Site,also inscribed in 2004,and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger continuously since 2012.The article identifies critical missing elements that are inherent in discrete assessments,and provides indicators for practical tools with relevant applicability.
文摘International conventions,charters and recommendations tend to follow trends and are generally reactive to contemporary circumstances;the debates on urban heritage are no exception.These texts need to be read in the perspective of socio-economic and environmental considerations of their time together with their inter-dependence on other disciplines.The dramatic changes to our urban conurbations have included environmental degradation,the complexities of migrations and socio-economic transformations.Addressing these major concerns in managing urban heritage highlights the necessity for cross-disciplinarity in research and the need for adopting a more integrative attitude in the planning processes.Applying the General System Theory by the biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy brings a systematic,holistic methodology from the realms of modern science into extending the historic centre and the city with a territorial approach of the metropolis allowing for sustainable and resilient rural and urban linkages.This article brings together seven contributions on issues affecting the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape The potential of the digital revolution is in the capacity of recognizing the speed and rapidity of change,and the mega-data available as affecting our lives and environment together with the role of history,tradition and continuity in linking the past to the future.
