Preserving Urban Landscapes as Public History - Asian Context

Na, Li (2008) Preserving Urban Landscapes as Public History - Asian Context. In: 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’, 29 sept – 4 oct 2008, Quebec, Canada. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

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Are officially interpreted and designated memorials, historic districts, themed parks, and ethnic neighborhood dotted urban terrain truly save communities’ history? Does historic preservation always protect what is significant about the past as it claims? Whose history and whose memory gets preserved or lost? How personal and community memories are connected with or disconnected from the built environment? How to network places with authentic history that reconnect the memory on an urban scale? This paper attempts to answer those questions in Asian context. It questions the fundamental assumption behind the “themed” urban landscape, i.e. officially interpreted and designed memorials, historic sites, parks, districts and neighborhood. I argue that places with collective memory demonstrate the authentic spirit, and they cannot be artificially themed. I also ask for a returned respect for the contested, inconvenient, and sometimes difficult past. Urban landscapes should be interpreted and preserved as community-based public history by incorporating multiple voices of local communities. A shared authority in historic preservation provides potentials for designing and implementing an inclusive and democratic planning process.

Type:	Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier (Article)
Auteurs:	Auteurs E-mail Na, Li NON SPECIFIÉ
Langues:	English
Mots-clés libres:	urban landscapes; memorials; preservation; urban planning; spirit of place; historic urban landscape; Asia
Sujets:	H. TYPES DE PATRIMOINE > 14. Paysage urbain historique O. PATRIMOINE IMMATERIEL > 01. Généralités D. URBANISME > 02. Urbanisme E. CONSERVATION ET RESTAURATION > 03. Monuments P. ZONES GEOGRAPHIQUES > 04. Asie et îles du Pacifique
Collections spéciales:	Scientific Symposium (ICOMOS General Assemblies)
Volume de la collection spéciale:	2008, 16th
Déposé par:	Jose Garcia
Date de dépôt:	08 octobre 2010 15:28
Dernière modification:	13 janvier 2011 19:13
URI:	https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/223

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