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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"heritage preservation"”.
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An Ethnographic Study on Heritage Preservation in Bo-Kaap
… in Bo-Kaap, which is battling to preserve its heritage amid growing gentrification. Gentrification in this area is analysed as a special case in point, as although gentrification is happening in other neighbourhoods in Cape Town, Bo-Kaap is the home of Islam in South Africa, and is …
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Regional heritage preservation planning: an examination through case study analysis
Cultural preservation efforts have evolved from traditional, site specific projects administered by a single agency, to regional, multi-jurisdictional projects administered by a cooperative partnership. The projects administered cooperative partnerships are a recent phenomena and are often termed …
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The Impact of Cultural Assumptions about Technology on Choctaw Heritage Preservation and Sharing
… Choctaws deeply invested in the Tribe's cultural heritage preservation and sharing efforts can now understand the potential impact of ICT before a new ICT is even introduced, rather than after the fact. Also while the original IT Culture theory utilized metaphor and symbols to explain the …
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The role of indigenous environmental beliefs in cultural heritage preservation of Mwela rock art site in Kasama district of Zambia.
… role indigenous environmental beliefs play in heritage preservation at Mwela rock art site of Kasama district of Zambia. The objectives of the study were: to unravel the role spiritual beliefs played in preserving the rock art site, to investigate the desecration of indigenous beliefs at Mwela …
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The balance of local culture and global economic development : the case of the Nyarugenge Heritage Village in Kigali, Rwanda
… strategic physical developments including heritage preservation. This thesis interrogates the references to and the inclusion of heritage preservation in the planning priorities of a post-colonial, post-conflict and developing city like Kigali aiming to operate as a global city. The plans …
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Stepping over the threshold of time: The Brezhnev era and the rise of the heritage temporality (1964-1982)
… and its applicability within the scope of heritage studies. It argues that cultural notions of time, or temporalities, are of considerable consequence for the emergence of heritage, understood as a discursive formation, in any given society. Taking as its case study the example of the …
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Building heritage collections using games on social networks
… decrease time and increase scale of operation of heritage preservation by motivating users to supply and process the data. This project uses a Facebook application for the purpose of gathering heritage pictures and useful metadata and tagging. The application was written in Python using the Django …
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Renewing Spokane: A study of motivating forces behind downtown revitalization projects
… motivated by economics, but additionally cite heritage preservation values and community development as significant factors. Moreover, contemporary renewal projects are found to be small-scale endeavors, undertaken by individual private investors as government involvement has significantly …
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Stitching from afar. Palestinian embroidery between narration of the self and practice of belonging
… of the practice through the tensions between heritage preservation, commodification, and online expression. Within these tensions, embroidery emerges not as a static tradition but as a deeply embedded ‘map’ of Palestinian experience, a site where embodied resistance, intergenerational …
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Heritage partnerships : national designation, regional promotion and the role of local preservation organizations
… I examine the impact of one important type of "heritage partnership," the National Heritage Areas (NHA) program, on historic preservation activities at the grassroots level. NHAs, often termed the "future of our National Parks," have been administered by the National Park Service since the …
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The Heritagization of Africville: Tourism, Racism, and the Politics of Commemoration
… investigates Africville’s transformation into a heritage tourism site and museum. The findings reveal how the Africville Museum functions as a site of racial resilience, collective memory, and anti-racism discourse, while simultaneously serving as a platform for reconciliation and healing. …
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Digital Government Systems: Tackling The Legacy Problem Through A Game-Based Approach To Business Requirements Analysis
… structured around the themes of legacy (or heritage) preservation and innovation. The game is evaluated by local government practitioners through several iterations and their feedback is analysed to gauge the potential utility of the approach. The results indicate that with a streamlined …
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The making and meaning of gay space : the case of the Castro in San Francisco
… can be used by urban and social planners and in heritage preservation and tourism. The Castro is an internationally recognized gay ghetto, continuing a tradition in the city dating back at least 100 years. It is also a living, changing neighborhood, subject to the same pressures as other …
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In search of significance
… intervention celebrates the unique industrial heritage of the Cullinan No. II Shaft Compound through a process of heritage preservation, representation and integration with its surrounding context. This dissertation aims at establishing a method of communicating the story of the workers who …
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Beneath The Ruin Bars: A Philosophical And Empirical Journey Through The Multi-Layered Tourism Milieu Of Budapest's Party District
… mediators, balancing local identity and heritage preservation against global tourism pressures, yet structural and regulatory constraints limit their transformative capacity. The study demonstrates that the tourism milieu is neither fixed nor homogeneous; it is a co-constructed, …
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Preserving Industrial Heritage: Risk, Monitoring and Evidence-Based Decision-Making at the Brooks Aqueduct
Risk is a pervasive factor in the lifecycle of heritage resources, influencing their designation, management, and long-term preservation. Industrial Archaeological heritage is particularly vulnerable due to its often-overlooked significance, resulting in neglect, deterioration, and eventual loss. …
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… in the intersecting logics of urban planning, heritage preservation, and neoliberal development in contemporary Gujarat. Through an analysis of the contemporary reorganization and partitioning of the city of Ahmedabad along religious lines, I show how it is continuous with colonial and …
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Practices of pastness, postwars of the dead, and the power of heritage: museums, monuments and sites in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-2010
… the meanings, significances, and roles of heritage across the colonial and postcolonial eras in Zimbabwe. The study traces dominant ideas about heritage at particular periods in Zimbabwean history, illustrating how heritage has been deployed in ways that challenge common or essentialised …
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