creators_name	Madan, Nidhi
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datestamp	2018-11-20 08:52:47
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title	Repurposing Unbuilt Heritage for the Community: Guidelines for Creating Equitable Public Spaces to Engage Diverse Populations in India
ispublished	pub
subjects	D03
subjects	E09
subjects	G05
subjects	L04
full_text_status	public
pres_type	paper
keywords	urban developement
keywords	public spaces
keywords	historic towns
keywords	threats
keywords	sutainable development
keywords	urbanism
keywords	community participation
keywords	values
keywords	cultural significance
keywords	urban growth
keywords	India
abstract	With growth of Indian towns and cities set to escalate through economic stimulus, educational and employment opportunities and aspirations, migration and development are rapidly changing small towns. As a result, historic precincts, fortified cities and pilgrimage towns are rapidly losing their historic character and sense of place. Particularly in cultural centres of historic towns, such as Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal or Lucknow, conservation for authenticity is a much lower priority than critical socio-economic development pressures. However, in this day and age, creating safe, accessible, approachable and equitable precincts can build on existing cultural precincts, create engagement with the local community and find new stakeholders and modern relevance. In repurposing these living city-cores, this paper examines strategies to create vibrant, equitable and relevant public spaces for the city. Culturally significant urban centres, with their dynamism and multifaceted evolution must cater to contemporary uses and also create improved understanding of its peopleparticularly in Indian culture, wherein diverse populations of gender groups, religious and caste distinctions, persons with disabilities, and differing economic classes have not traditionally mixed. The opportunity to craft shared public spaces as community spaces in urbanized and ghettoised cities using historic precincts as city centres will be investigated, to provide places for non-religious congregation, for engagement between citizens, for commerce and transit, for collective celebration and grief and for staging of disaster relief, if required. This paper investigates a divergent approach wherein the needs of diverse user groups are the primary concern, yet the heritage value defines the framework within which this approach can succeed. It addresses heritage precincts as places for its people and their contextual needs, within a set of guidelines that preserve tangible and intangible spatial, architectural and cultural values. To succeed it must not impinge on the economic, social and modern aspirations of burgeoning populations.
date	2018
date_type	published
event_title	ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy"
event_location	New Delhi, India
event_dates	13-14th December 2017
event_type	other
refereed	TRUE
referencetext	Deffner, Alex. Psatha,Eva. (2015) “Accessibility to Culture and Heritage: Designing for All”. Accessed October 20, 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280312809_ACCESSIBILITY_TO_CULTURE_AND_HERIT AGE_DESIGNING_FOR_ALL Martin Eric. (1999) Improving Access to Heritage Buildings, a Practical Guide to Meeting the Needs of People with Disabilities. Australian Council of National Trusts. Accessed October 20, 2017. http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/improving-access-heritage-buildings Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (2012). Census of India, 2011. Accessed September 1, 2017. www.censusindia.gov.in. Thakur, Nalini (2010).“The Indian Cultural Landscape and its Protection & Management through Cultural & Historic Urban Landscape Concepts”. Journal of Landscape Architecture, Vol 7 (5): 25-32. UNESCO. (2017). Intangible Heritage. [online] [Accessed October 20, 2017] http://www.unesco.org/new/en/cairo/culture/tangible-cultural-heritage/. People Building Better Cities. (2017). [online] [Accessed October 20, 2017]. http://peoplebuildingbettercities.org/.
citation	Madan, Nidhi (2018) Repurposing Unbuilt Heritage for the Community: Guidelines for Creating Equitable Public Spaces to Engage Diverse Populations in India. In: ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy", 13-14th December 2017, New Delhi, India. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]
document_url	https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1929/1/10._ICOA_1732_Madan_SM.pdf