International regulation of historic buildings and nationalism: the role of UNESCO

Casini, Lorenzo

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“…When UNESCO includes a building on its World Heritage list, a UNESCO committee monitors preservation and can put the building on the ‘endangered’ list or ultimately remove it from the list; both would be humiliating for a nation and UNESCO's regulation represents a loss of control and indeed sovereignty. Yet analysis of UNESCO also reveals that states seek new modes of pursuing their nationalist aims through international regulation (Casini, ). Buildings for the World Heritage list can only be proposed by recognised signatory states, who can select those that serve their purposes.…”

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“…Other objectives may be more economic, with the development of a ‘heritage industry’ and larger tourist revenues (for Britain, see Wright 1985/, Hewison ). One of the reasons why national governments welcome UNESCO world heritage site status is to increase visitors, even though it means supranational regulation (Lorenzo Casini ). Today historic buildings form part of wider strategies of urban renewal, as even former industrial cities are transformed into cultural and tourist attractions.…”

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“…India saw important colonial legislation in 1904, which has been maintained and extended after independence (Sengupta and ). International regulation has expanded – 161 states have ratified the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, and UNESCO now regulates more than a thousand ‘world heritage sites’ (Casini ) . Protection has been broadened from buildings that underline previous national achievements to include ‘dark heritage’ such as concentration camps, rallying grounds or torture cells.…”

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“…Germany provides a particularly striking case, as from unification in the nineteenth century onwards, the Länder (regions) have their own legislation, while cities have much scope for choice. UNESCO decisions offer a fascinating mix of central government and supranational: only after a recognised national government has nominated a site are decisions taken by supranational committtees (Casini ).…”

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“…British planning law after 1944 became increasingly detailed – it expanded from protecting ‘listed buildings’ to also covering entire ‘conservation areas’ (cf. Delafons ); the UNESCO protection of World Heritage Sites includes the vicinity – Casini .…”

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Introduction: The state and historic buildings: preserving ‘the national past’

Thatcher

2017

Nations and Nationalism

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Historic buildings are important in nationalism through their roles in building and reinforcing national identity. As part of the expanding ‘heritage industry’, they are also of growing economic and political importance. Despite their physical existence, historic buildings are ‘created’ – they must be constructed as ‘historic’ through processes of choice and the attachment of significance. The state can perform these functions through policies that define and select buildings for protection, by ownership and funding, and by its uses of buildings for nationalistic purposes. Yet state actors can have good reasons – nationalistic and economic – to destroy or fail to preserve historic buildings. The paper examines why, when and how state actors pursue policies to protect historic buildings. It offers arguments about patterns of state action that part of state strategies to promote national identity and cultural nationalism.

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Introduction: The state and historic buildings: preserving ‘the national past’

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2017

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The Historic Urban Landscape approach to urban management: a systematic review

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Houbart

Teller

2018

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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In 2011, UNESCO adopted the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) recommendation and called for the application of a landscape approach to ensure the integration of cultural heritage policies and management concerns in the wider goals of sustainable urban development. This paper tracks the genesis of a landscape approach to heritage conservation, and then presents a systematic review of the literature on the HUL. More than 100 publications from 2010 to early 2018 were analysed. The applied methodology combined an inductive categorization method with a deductive data mining method. The objective is to determine whether the academic discussion is addressing the different dimensions of the HUL approach, including the holistic, integrated, and value-based dimensions, and whether it is progressing through time to move from a conceptual to an operational level. Results show that while the discussion is heavily focused on values, the operationalization of a valuebased approach is still lacking, as it is not fully contextualized in relation to local heritage discourses and the dynamics of heritage governance. Results also show that many case studies applications are in "non-Western" cities, thus opening the debate about the accountability of a value-based approach in contexts that tend to be dominated by groups with the most political power, and where conservation practices mainly focus on the mobilization of material heritage to foster its economic value. Nevertheless, the transition from international guidelines to contextualized local endeavours and policies remains a challenge to be solved.

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Historic urban landscape

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Roders

2020

JCHMSD

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PurposeThe main aim of this paper is to determine how well the UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (hereafter, the HUL approach) is understood by the academic community today. It will review relevant research, highlight shortcomings regarding the HUL concept and approach and explore how well the six proposed steps are being considered when implementing the HUL approach.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents and discusses the results of a systematic review of 140 peer-reviewed publications, published in international academic journals between 2008 and 2019 and available in databases such as WoS and Scopus, such as journal articles, book chapters and books. More specifically, this research takes the six-step process as its theoretical framework in order to understand if the six steps are being followed in the case studies where the HUL approach has been implemented. Following this, it assesses gaps in the HUL concept and approach. The paper explores the HUL implementation management process, investigating what is being done, how it is being done and who is involved.FindingsThe concept ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ has been used in research since 2008. However, the first case studies implementing the HUL approach were not published until 2013. While there is an abundance of theoretical research in relation to the HUL concept and approach from different perspectives and to varying degrees of depth, the case studies which practically demonstrate the HUL approach and its six steps are scarce. This paper will also show how feasible the steps are and which are used the most.Originality/valueThis research demonstrates if the HUL approach is being understood in the academic field and if the implementation of the six steps is being reflected in the literature. This approach will reveal how these steps are being implemented and if this is having an effect on the heritage planning process.

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International regulation of historic buildings and nationalism: the role of UNESCO

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Introduction: The state and historic buildings: preserving ‘the national past’

Introduction: The state and historic buildings: preserving ‘the national past’

The Historic Urban Landscape approach to urban management: a systematic review

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