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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"heritage value"”.
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Authenticity and the perceptions of significance : examining Rust-en-Vrede in Durbanville, South Africa
This dissertation examines the heritage significance of Rust-en-Vrede as a structure with little surviving building fabric from its earliest years, but a rich history of four diverse uses since circa 1808. It is located in Durbanville to the north of Cape Town, an area which has changed over the …
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CRITICAL HERITAGE STUDIES AND HERITAGE CONSERVATION PRACTICES IN SINGAPORE: A CASE STUDY OF THE FIRST UNITED TEMPLE, UNITED FIVE TEMPLES 批判性遗产研究理论与新加坡遗产保护实践——以第一座联合庙“伍合庙”为 例
… of Singapore, Chinese temples considered as heritage often refer to historically significant temples that have become national monuments, such as Yueh Hai Ching Temple(粤海清庙), Thian Hock Keng(天福宫), and Hong San See Temple(凤山寺). However, temples like the United Five Temples(伍合庙), despite being …
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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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Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa
… for the protection of Prince Albert’s ‘heritage value’ and concomitant development of the tourism industry, these new residents exert a symbolic control of space which centers their own interests and identities and ultimately re-assigns coloured residents a peripheral, disenfranchised …
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The Architectural Heritage of Private Non-Monumental Structures: Diu Town
… and architectural environments, the current heritage value and the physical condition of structures. Today, these settlements exist as post-colonial cultural neighbourhoods within quickly urbanising culturally complex urban environments. Due to neglect and demolition of heritage structures in …
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Pretoria heritage layers : developing a heritage catalogue for iron age settlements found in the (former) Transvaal
The study of heritage has become a distinct research area in the academic world and has a profound influence on society. Over the last century, many organisations have developed charters to aid in the global conservation and protection of heritage resources. Through the use of heritage values …
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The investigation of energy efficiency measures in traditional buildings in the Oporto World Heritage Site
… buildings pose the additional challenge of heritage conservation. Their energy efficiency upgrade raises the risk of provoking negative impacts on their significance. Aims and Methodology This research used an approach based on impact assessment methodologies, defining an inital baseline …
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Heritage, identity and value: Ida's Valley, Stellenbosch
Heritage sites, inclusive of cultural landscapes, are understood to derive their significance from perceptions of beauty, sense of place and, when it has been impacted by humans, its genius loci and tangible qualities and the overlay of their intangible associations. In order for a site to be …
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District 1: Mapping memories of an erased space in a transforming post-apartheid city
… of Cape Town in South Africa, to establish the heritage value of the area and how it can be safeguarded. The area was desecrated because of the Group Areas Act, with a large portion of the historic urban landscape demolished and the community displaced to various parts of the Cape Flats1 . …
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What is the impact of World Heritage status and related positioning for a tourist audience on Robben Island's meanings and public narratives?
… democracy brought about changes in the cultural heritage landscape. Cultural heritage used to be a preserve of the rich and experts. Heritage of places is not found lying around for it to be discovered, but it is continually reproduced to suit the needs of that particular society. Reproduction of …
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Stone cleaning: a value assessment.
… record of a country's history and cultural heritage, and make an important contribution to modern cultural identity. Any intervention which changes their appearance, or the manner in which they contribute towards the living environment,should therefore be considered rigorously prior to such …
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Changing values in heritage: shifts from the tangible to intangible in urban historic environments bo-kaap as case study
This study explores the emergence of changing values associated with heritage in postapartheid South Africa, expressed as a shift from tangible to intangible heritage values. Central to the study is an understanding of the evolutionary construction of changing values in a rooted heritage community …
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A Sustainable livelihood approach in a world heritage area: Ayutthaya, Thailand
… might yield sustainable livelihood. Cultural and heritage tourism can provide significant revenue to local people but it can also have a negative impact on the heritage. The UNESCO World Heritage programme recognizes globally significant heritage and such recognition results in an increase of …
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The city as a living museum: reimagining the architecture of industrial monuments through psychogeography and collective memory in Nelson, British Columbia
… museum’ of historic sites, and stories. Many heritage buildings have been preserved (to various degrees) largely within the downtown core of the city, however the precursor industrial monuments have not fared as well against the various conditions of time in an evolving city. As the catalyst …
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The cultural significance of the Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg KwaZulu-Natal
… has been widely used to determine the heritage value of places. In South Africa, heritage practitioners are guided by the South African National Heritage Resources Act (Act 25 of 1999) which provides criteria as set out in Section 3(3). The Act was used for the purpose of this study, in …
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Exploring the past and the present in order to predict the future: herbarium specimens, field data and extinction probability for conservation managers
… must also meet recently recognized conservation heritage mandates. In the face of mounting environmental pressure protected areas have been identified as the primary means for saving biodiversity and heritage sites. Protected area managers are constrained by limited time to act and less available …