World Heritage and National Registers
Subtitle: Stewardship in Perspective
By: Thomas R. Gensheimer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781315135960
Subjects: World Heritage areas; Management; Historic sites; Historic districts; Conservation and restoration; Cultural property; Architecture; Sites du patrimoine mondial; Gestion; Lieux historiques; Conservation et restauration; Quartiers anciens
Description: "Historic sites celebrate defining moments in history, memorialize important events and people, and contribute to the character of the locations where they are situated. Heritage designation, both globally and nationally, is an inherently contested issue. As detailed in this volume, concerns of politics and identity, criteria for designation, impacts on communities and sites, and challenges to management planning are central to any understanding of the process by which heritage sites are created, developed, and maintained. The idea for this volume originated at a symposium hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design. Contributors address such topics as the need to revamp criteria for designation, the effect historic site recognition has on local communities, the challenges encountered in maintaining a site, and issues linked to specific political climates or actions and group identity. The contributors constitute an international cast of leading scholars, employees, and policy-makers, all of whom have had extensive experience with World Heritage and National Register site stewardship. The work will be an invaluable reference for historians, architects, and those committed to the preservation of national monuments."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part I New Considerations for Historic Designation Criteria --; title: chapter 1 The Psychedelic Assisi in the Southern Pines: PasaQuran, Visionary-Art Environments, and the National Register of Historic Places --; title: chapter 2 A Methodological Framework for Assessing the?Spirit and Feeling? of World Heritage Properties --; title: chapter 3 Remixing Heritage: How the Sacred Grove of a Nigerian River Deity Became a UNESCO World Heritage Site --; title: part II Designation and Its Effect on Communities and Sites --; title: chapter 4 World Heritage and a National Register: The Canadian Experience --; title: chapter 5 World Heritage Status in America: The View from Monticello --; title: chapter 6?This House Is Historic??: Everyday Workings of National Register Designation in New Orleans's New Marigny Historic District --; title: chapter 7 The Buddhist Stupa at Bauddhanath: A World Heritage Site under Pressure --; title: chapter 8 The Case of Harry S. Truman Historic District, National Historic Landmark: Catalyst for Community Preservation or Community Confrontation? --; title: part III Challenges to Successful Management Plans --; title: chapter 9 Conserving World Heritage Cities --; title: chapter 10 A Preliminary Report on the Recent Excavations in the Valley of the Kings --; title: chapter 11 Documentation and Policy Making: Preserving the Built Heritage or the Life Within? --; title: chapter 12 The Role of Architectural Treatises in Enriching Information on Built Heritage --; title: chapter 13 Heritage and Identity: Nesting Intuitive Stewardship within the Management Strategies for World Heritage Sites --; title: chapter 14 National Historic Landmarks, World Heritage Sites, and the American University Campus in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge of Growth --; title: part IV Politics, Identity, and Historic Site Registration --; title: chapter 15 The Case for Savannah as a World Heritage Site  -- Beth Reiter; title: chapter 16 The Terrace of the Foreign Gods, Serapieion C, and the Meaning of World Heritage at the Archaeological Site of Delos --; title: chapter 17 Czech Heritage since 1945: Sequestration and Preservation under Communism --; title: chapter 18 Balancing the Ideological Pendulum in National Heritage: Cultural Politics in the Management of Japanese Colonial Heritage in Modern Korea.