ABSTRACT:In the face of changing economies and patterns of development, the definition of heritage is diversifying, and the role of inventories in local heritage planning is coming to the fore. The Durand neighbourhood is a layered and complex area located in inner-city Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and the second subject area in a set of pilot inventory studies to develop a new city-wide inventory strategy for the City of Hamilton,. This paper presents an innovative digital workflow developed to undertake the Durand Built Heritage Inventory project. An online database was developed to be at the centre of all processes, including digital documentation, record management, analysis and variable outputs. Digital tools were employed for survey work in the field and analytical work in the office, resulting in a GIS-based dataset that can be integrated into Hamilton's larger municipal planning system. Together with digital mapping and digitized historical resources, the Durand database has been leveraged to produce both digital and static outputs to shape recommendations for the protection of Hamilton's heritage resources.
Guest editorialHeritage and waste: introduction "New heritage suggests that instead of finding the best, calling it heritage and fighting to keep it, we should look with open eyes at all that exists, accept that at some level it is all heritage and then decide how best to use it for social and future values. This may involve traditional preservation, but it may not." G. Fairclough, 2009 "New Heritage Frontiers," Heritage and Beyond, Ed. Council of Europe, 33. ContextsGiven the magnitude of waste generated by demolition and disasters, and concerns about resource depletion and landfill, increasing attention is being paid in research and policy to partial or complete deconstruction, and to methods for salvage and design based on the reuse of reclaimed materials. Waste, deconstruction and material reuse are also being considered in the context of environmental studies, industrial ecology, and cultural theory. The field of heritage conservation has, however, been slow to engage in an equivalent reflection on material waste or reuse. This is despite the frequently considerable quantity of discarded materials that may be generated as part not only of inescapable demolition but of any given conservation project.The multiple impacts of construction, renovation and demolition and, in particular, the extraction, transformation and eventual discarding of materials, often after only a short life, are generating increasing interest in examining how all building processes, including heritage conservation, can enable material reuse. Furthermore, attending to the embodied environmental effects of building materials forces the field of heritage conservation to the address the complexity of reusable materials and assemblies embedded in buildings. Not only unique crafted elements like carved stone but manufactured systems like modular ceilings form part of the wider inheritance of the entire existing building stock and infrastructure. Given its sheer volume across the globe, it is precisely the more recent material legacy -previously deemed to have little or no heritage value-that is becoming the focus of stewardship efforts in the twenty-first century. New approaches to conservation are thus required to address this expanding scope and specific issues of buildings, materials and assemblies of the recent past.In parallel, recent scholarship on curated decay, toxic materials, urban mining and the circular economy (CE) has introduced critical perspectives on alternative futures for built heritage and, in some instances, practical strategies for stewardship and conservation. To begin with, waste management and material reuse processes are beginning to challenge traditional definitions of heritage that draw distinctions between "value-bearing" elements of the built environment and elements of "no value," as part of policies guiding how the latter are to be managed. However, gaps between critical heritage theories, the emerging area of discard studies, and innovative waste management practices and policy frameworks, highlight the need fo...
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