ABSTRACT
We provide an overview of the diverse approaches to exploring the broader public's heritage value. We focus on ambiguous, controversial or dissonant heritage, paying particular attention to the intermediate category between use value and non-use value. Thus, we reviewed the research on the soc-modernist architecture valuation, which has been applied in other studies. The most challenging situation for the valuation of architectural heritage is when disagreement appears as to whether the use or non-use value should prevail in a given object at a given time. When such ambiguity arises, dissonance occurs, and more sophisticated methods of capturing value are sought. Our review and classification of the heritage valuation methods are intended to help find them. We focus on presenting valuation methods based on revealed and stated preferences and monetary and monetary approaches. We also offer our own proposal for heritage valuation, referring to the tradition of the cost–benefit analysis method and considering its applicability in measuring the value of architectural heritage. This chapter ends with our methodological proposal of evaluating soc-modernism in daily life, based on the example of the Warsaw Ochota railway station in Poland.
