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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"World Heritage List"”.
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Creating Values of Heritage: An Analysis of Policy Processes of Candidacy to UNESCO's World Heritage List
… analysis of the processes of candidacy to the World Heritage List, shows how the so-called Outstanding Universal Value is constructed.This is demonstrated through an empirical approach that examines four different case studies based on direct experience. The methodology is based on the …
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Preserving Power, Remaking the Past: Race, Colonialism, Modernism, and Architectural Preservation
… history, international relations, and critical heritage studies, I map the making and remaking of the histories of white cities, or what were designed as "European" zones – in opposition to "Indigenous" zones – that brought together modernist architecture, white supremacy, early …
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When home becomes world heritage : the case of Aleppo, Syria
Lists are valuable tools for conservation. 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 …
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Státní podpora edukace a prezentace památek na Seznamu světového dědictví a její využití ve školní praxi
… thesis introduces the concepts of cultural heritage, world cultural heritage, and the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. More specifically, the thesis analyzes tangible Czech monuments inscribed on the World Heritage List, focusing on their …
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Radioactive heritage: an autoethnographic investigation of Chernobyl as a dark heritage site
… research aims to unearth Chernobyl’s radioactive heritage through autoethnographic methodology. The autoethnographic method takes readers on a first-person tour of Chernobyl and the Exclusion Zone. In doing so, readers are given the unique first-person opportunity to experience the site, its …
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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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Canonizing Le Corbusier: The Making of an Architectural Icon as Colonial Hegemony
… Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s World Heritage List. With this notable decision, Le Corbusier, the figure, moved from beatification as a “modern master” to achieving the architectural status of canonical sainthood. No other architect had been so completely enshrined on UNESCO’s …
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A Tale of Three Cities: An Evaluation of Urban World Heritage Management in Mexico
<p>UNESCO's World Heritage list aims to protect tangible and intangible World Heritage of "universal value." Mexico ranks third worldwide, surpassed only by Italy (16) and Spain (12), with ten World Heritage cities, an accomplishment frequently touted in official rhetoric and tourism promotion. …
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Repurposing Colonialism: Postcoloniality and the Politics of World Heritage
… South have increasingly sought to inscribe their heritage sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. World Heritage listing is considered prestigious because it brings global recognition, secures political legitimacy, boosts tourism, and attracts economic investment. Within the Indian Ocean Region, …
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The Management of the conservation of Masjed-e Jame, Isfahan
… process for its inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) took a long time (4 years). Each nomination file is composed of nine sections. The aim of this thesis is to clarify the weak points of the registered nomination file of Masjed-e Jame as a World Heritage Site (WHS), based on …
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Chinese Scholar Garden Detail with Grace of Rainwater
… in 1980, it attracted visitors from all over the world. Replicating the Master of Nets Garden, added in UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997, it was constructed in China, and shipped and assembled here. This first exported garden of the Peony Court is the only part of the garden suitable for the …
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La valorizzazione dei paesaggi vitivinicoli oltre la candidatura UNESCO. Elementi di qualità residua
… selezionati sui quindici inscritti nella World Heritage List: Paesaggi vitivinicoli del Piemonte: Langhe-Roero e Monferrato e Climats du vignoble de Bourgogne. Rispettivamente patrimonio UNESCO italiano del 2014 e francese del 2015, sono stati analizzati secondo quattro macrocategorie …
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Global heritage cities : managing complexity of cultural world heritage sites in global cities
… global cities that are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which are referred as global heritage cities hereafter. In this rapidly globalising world that is market-driven, the binary approach of managing change in historic cities while promoting their sustainable development and …
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Embodied knowledge of landscape: accommodating ongoing subjective experience in the presentation of heritage landscape
… frames a new approach to the presentation of heritage landscape, taking into account the emergent priority of ongoing subjective experience in heritage discourse. The dissertation advocates for a shift in heritage theory and practice based on an understanding of “embodied knowledge” of …