The Value of Built Heritage: Community, Economy and Environment

Irons, Janine; Armitage, Lynne

doi:10.1080/14445921.2011.11104345

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“…Similar to the studies by Maeer [50], Irons [48], Throsby [32], and Mason [34], it can be concluded that only economically evaluating the historic buildings for conservation is insufficient. Thus, non-economic aspects should also be considered in finding and identifying the values influencing the conservation process.…”

Section: Architectural Heritage and Conservationsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Irons and Armitage stated that although in Australia, historic buildings are conserved with respect to the latest standards, they are conserved with an economic perspective, and all the values are valued regarding the economic issues. They concluded that other aspects such as environmental, identity, and social values can be considered too [48]. Hubbard showed that the conservation of the historic buildings does not only involve the architectural and archeological aspects.…”

Section: Architectural Heritage and Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The semantic conservation of architectural heritage: the missing values

2020

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The conservation of the architectural heritage has enjoyed a long course of development over the recent decades. Conservation practice is based on the values offered by the architectural heritage resources for different individuals, groups, societies, and governments. Since there is no serious and comprehensive research on the semantic values, the present study was conducted to identify all the influential semantic values in the architectural conservation process and to determine the importance of each value based on the published literature. To this end, more than 100 scientific documents, statements, and charters were analyzed and then, 40 semantic values were identified. The snowball sampling method was used to select the papers. In this study, the qualitative content analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the architectural heritage and conservation, and the quantitative content analysis was used to assess the relationship between the semantic values and conservation. According to the results of the content analysis, it can be concluded that the conservation of architectural heritage can be investigated and analyzed at three levels: people, experts, and governments, and the holistic conservation of the architectural heritage can be achieved only by the joint cooperation among all the three levels. Also, the results showed that the cultural value, economic value, historical value, and identity greatly influence the semantic conservation of the architectural heritage.

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Section: Architectural Heritage and Conservationsupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Architectural Heritage and Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The semantic conservation of architectural heritage: the missing values

2020

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“…Except for cultural heritage assets, Irons and Armitage (2011) and Mason (2008) explain that economists are capable of allocating scarce goods, services and other resources in a market efficient frontier paradigm since they morally consider such assets are priceless goods to human kind. Putting a dollar value for the purpose of improving their conservation efforts does not preclude commodification of historic buildings, monuments and sites to the highest bidder (Zancheti 2016).…”

Section: The Economics Of Built Heritage Pricelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Putting a dollar value for the purpose of improving their conservation efforts does not preclude commodification of historic buildings, monuments and sites to the highest bidder (Zancheti 2016). The objective is simply to gain an understanding of what the importance of their use and non-use values are to society (Irons and Armitage, 2011) so that policy and decision-makers can create appropriate efforts for sustainable conservation . After all, de la Torre and Mason (2002:03) states: 'It is selfevident that no society makes an effort to conserve what it does not value.'…”

Section: The Economics Of Built Heritage Pricelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, theories to explain different ways to protect the pricelessness of built heritage from socially and economically changed conditions are plentiful, but environmentally verifiable methods have been elusive. Amar (2017) notes that until the late 20 th century no reference to built heritage was contained in environmental legislation, let alone how aspects of historic fabric related to policies aimed at reducing environmental problems like excessive use of natural resources, global warming and pollution (Irons and Armitage 2011). However, some studies detailed by Ruuska and Häkkinen (2014) and Australian Government (2012), Creyts et al (2007) and Subramanian (2007) have shown how global construction projects are estimated to consume about of 42% of energy use, 40% of raw materials, 25% of water, 12% of land use and 40% of atmospheric pollution annually.…”

Section: The Environmental Perception Of Built Heritage Pricelessnessmentioning

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Priceless or Bankrupt: Problems and Prospects from a Built Heritage Conservation Perceptive

Amar¹

2019

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Heritage conservation today is recognised one of the oldest philosophies in the field of built environment aimed at creating a sustainable management system for historic buildings, sites and monuments. At the root of its theory, policies and practices lies the belief that cultural built heritage is a priceless asset. Unfortunately, some argue it is a bankrupt metaphor. The concept of pricelessness has failed persistently to protect places with important historical and cultural values from being demolished by way of neglect. Built assets may frequently receive appropriate listing or other statutory protection until such time as a conflict arises with what are considered the more mainstream values of capitalist societies, generating a tension often relieved, by the desecration and loss of the heritage asset. From this perspective, this paper explores the term priceless in relation to (i) its influence on heritage conservation and changing built environment (ii) how the concept can be employed more synergistically with the behemoth of economic development to achieve a more positive outcome for the community. A critical review of the literature and an empirical analysis of data collected from focus group studies conducted in Australia and Tanzania. It was found that heritage sector stands to lose far more without a paradigm shift that generates a balance between justifying new development at the expense of priceless, irreplaceable built heritage. The paper suggests that heritage practitioners need to more effective methods for assessing the values of cultural built heritage. The originality in this paper is its new perspective on pricelessness in light of understanding the impacts on sustainability in built heritage conservation.

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