ABSTRACT
Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses the question of how a human-centred conservation approach can and should change practice. For the most part, there are few answers to this question because professionals in the heritage conservation field do not use social science research methodologies to manage cultural landscapes, assess historical significance and inform the treatment of building and landscape fabric. With few exceptions, only academic theorists have explored these topics while failing to offer specific, usable guidance on how the social sciences can actually be used by heritage professionals.
In exploring the nature of a human-centred heritage conservation practice, we explicitly seek a middle ground between the academy and practice, theory and application, fabric and meanings, conventional and civil experts, and orthodox and heterodox ideas behind practice and research. We do this by positioning this book in a transdisciplinary space between these dichotomies as a way to give voice (and respect) to multiple perspectives without losing sight of our goal that heritage conservation practice should, fundamentally, benefit all people. We believe that this approach is essential for creating an emancipated built heritage conservation practice that must successfully engage very different ontological and epistemological perspectives.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |30 pages
Introduction
part 311|2 pages
Defining a Human-Centric Built Heritage Conservation Practice
chapter 3|21 pages
Meeting the Shadow
part 2|2 pages
Ways to Gather Evidence
chapter 5|25 pages
The Perception and Preservation of Vernacular Architectural Features in an Urban Historic District with Heritage Value
chapter 6|14 pages
Image for the Future of the Historic City
chapter 7|13 pages
Conservation and the People’s Views
part 3|2 pages
Using Evidence to Change Practice
chapter 8|17 pages
Tours of Critical Geography and Public Deliberation
chapter 9|18 pages
Of Policy Lags and “Upgraded” Neighborhoods
chapter 12|21 pages
Democratizing Conservation
chapter 13|18 pages
Missed Opportunities
part 4|2 pages
The Role of Higher Education in Leading Evidence-based Practice