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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"UNESCO World Heritage"”.
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The local identity politics of world heritage : lessons from Galle Fort in Sri Lanka
Institutionalized heritage protection has become a global phenomenon, and the UNESCO World Heritage program is perhaps the most well-known of these efforts. Although the List is intended to be concerned only with heritage, in reality it also serves as a global stage for broadcasting geopolitics, …
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Nanjing City Wall: embodied heritage in wallscape
… and nature, the importance of this ancient heritage was realized. However, as the wall has been nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the government is implementing its preservation policy to sanitize the surrounding neighborhoods which are in poor condition. The preservation plan …
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Modern radiocarbon offsets within the land snails Cyclophorus: a tropical karst case study from Northern Vietnam
… the SUNDASIA project on the archaeology of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tràng An (Ninh Bình, Northern Vietnam), a tower karst area of high endemism and habitat insularity. Archaeological sites in the region contain abundant shell middens, composed mainly of terrestrial Cyclophorus …
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Aesthetics of the Qur'anic epigraphy on the Taj Mahal
… as indicated by the Taj Mahal's recognition as a UNESCO world heritage monument and as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, there is insufficient research directed towards the inscription program specifically. In order to focus the scope of the project, I employ phenomenological methodology, …
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Analysis of the military hospital, Port Louis, Mauritius
… in Port Louis, Mauritius, the influence of the World Heritage Program of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisiation (UNESCO), in Mauritius is analysed. The new Intercontinental Slavery Museum, a destination on the UNESCO Slave Route, is housed in the Military Hospital …
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Reasserting the Past and Preserving the Future: A Cultural Center in Wadi Rum
… context of the Wadi Rum Protected Area (WRPA), a UNESCO world heritage site that is located in the Arabian Desert region. It proposes a cultural center that reflects the ecological and cultural significance of the site. The architecture of the building converges elements from the desert with …
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Developing Archaeomagnetic Dating for Neolithic Scotland
… situated at the Heart of Neolithic Orkney’s UNESCO World Heritage Site. This thesis integrates high resolution archaeomagnetic sampling of stratigraphically related material and a focussed radiocarbon dating programme (21 radiocarbon dates) alongside prior chronological information to define …
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Lidar derived models and NDVI trends indicate vegetation threshold response to hydroclimatic drivers across the Peace Athabasca Delta
… the Peace Athabasca Delta (PAD) is a Ramsar and UNESCO World Heritage-designated wetland complex vital for biodiversity and well-being of the Indigenous communities residing there. In this study, remote sensing techniques were used to understand the changes that have occurred within the PAD over …
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Poetry and the Archive
… selected Cornish mining areas were validated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Here are found numerous remnants of the mining industry that justified Cornwall’s prominence from the Industrial Revolution up to the close of the last major mine in the 1990s. An essential part of that history is the …
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The Counter-Colonial: The Agency of Architectural Rehabilitation as a form of Resistance in Hebron, Palestine
… where historic and religiously significant built heritage is overlapped by Israeli colonial infrastructure, including settlements, checkpoints, watchtowers, and barricades. Hebron’s built heritage has become the locus where counter-colonial tactics are deployed in response to the ongoing settler …
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Building Roman Britons The Use of Novel Construction Materials in the Development of Roman Bath
… the ceramic building materials (CBM) from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Roman Baths at Bath, UK. Ceramic building materials from much of Roman Britain are understudied, yet our knowledge of the brick and tile from Bath is not limited solely by a paucity of research, rather than by a …
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Design and creation of a virtual world of Petra, Jordan
… presents the design and creation of a 3D virtual world of Petra, Jordan, based on the digital spatial documentation of this UNESCO World Heritage Site by the Zamani project. Creating digital records of the spatial domain of heritage sites is a well-established practice that employs the …
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When home becomes world heritage : the case of Aleppo, Syria
… One such list for the conservation of cultural heritage objects is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. In this thesis, I seek to understand how this international device impacts planning at a local level, specifically in the context …
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Evaluation of LiDAR Visualisation Techniques within the National Scenic Area of Orkney
… covers 244 km2 and incorporates the |UNESCO World Heritage Site, The Heart Of<br/>Neolithic Orkney. To date there has been no significant analysis nor interpretation of this<br/>LIDAR data for this region as a whole. Previous research (e.g., Stular et al. 2012) has<br/>demonstrated the …
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Heritage discontinued: tracing cultural ecologies within a context of urban transition
… This dominant cultural paradigm mainstreamed by UNESCO is subscribed to by government and other role-players within the domain of culture and urban development. Despite its significant achievements, it however comes with a specific heritage conceptualisation, which is disconnected from local …
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Numerical modelling of the shallow reinjection and tracer transport at Nesjavellir Geothermal System, Iceland : an assessment of heat transfer and fluid flow
… as the ecosystem in Lake Thingvellir, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This study investigates the flow path of reinjected liquid and temperature of impacted groundwater for a better management of the discharge and injection in the area. A numerical model of the Nesjavellir warm wastewater …
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Innovation of Tourism Mobility Systems in Historic City Centres: The Case of Austria
… Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage City Centres in Europe. Based on these findings, in-depth expert interviews were then conducted for the Austrian case cities of Vienna, Salzburg and Graz to develop a detailed understanding of stepwise innovation within …
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Aspects of the spatial and behavioural ecology of Hippopotamus amphibious in the Saint Lucia Estuary, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (itself a UNESCO World Heritage site), in northern KwaZulu-Natal is not only the largest estuarine system in Africa, but is also home to one of South Africa's largest hippo populations. In this study I explore aspects of the spatial and behavioural ecology of …
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Heritagisation, political action and social justice : Palestine’s Dheisheh refugee camp as a world heritage site
… dissertation strives to present a perception of heritage as a process, and to propose refugee heritage as a counter-narrative for authorised heritage. Its theoretical framework is based on dialectical arguments raised around each emerging question. The dissertation investigates the progression of …
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Housing La Habana Vieja: Reframing the Formal and Informal Vernacular
… of housing in an urban fabric designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site requires consideration of the historic character and how each building contributes to the streetscape. Beyond the facade, one discovers the unique story of each parcel through the transformations that its residents have …
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