The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at its best, a reflective and consequential process of urban and socio-economic reform. It has the potential to reconcile conflicting memories, meanings, and cultural tensions, bridging and expanding the perceived boundaries of multiple disciplines towards bigger aspirations of city-making and social justice. How and where do such aspirations overlap and differ across nations and societies across the world? In places with different histories, governance structures, regulatory stringency, and populist dispositions, who are the specific players, and what are the actual processes that bring about bigger and deeper change beyond just the conservation of an architectural or urban entity of perceived value? This collection of scholarly articles by theorists, academics, and practitioners explores the global complexity, guises, and potential of heritage conservation. Going from Tokyo to Cairo, Shenzhen to Rome, and Delhi to Moscow, this volume examines a vast range of topics – indigenous habitats, urban cores, vernacular infrastructure, colonial towns, squatters, burial sites, war zones, and modern landmarks. It surfaces numerous inherent issues – water stress, deforestation, social oppression, poverty, religion, immigration, and polity, expanding the definitions of heritage conservation as both a professional discipline and socio-cultural catalyst. This book argues that the intellectual and praxis limits of heritage conservation – as the agency of reading, defining, and intervening with built heritage – can be expansive, aimed at bigger positive change beyond a specific subject or object; plural, enmeshed with multiple fields and specializations; and empathetic, born from the actual socio-political realities of a place.

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Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction: Global Perspectives in Heritage Conservation by Vinayak Bharne & Trudi Sandmeier SECTION 1 – GLOBALIZING THE CONSERVATION DISCOURSE Re-examining World Heritage and Sustainable Development by Sophia Labadi (University of Kent) Re-conceptualizing ‘historic urban landscapes’ by Kalliopi Fouseki (University College London) Earthquakes and Afterlives: Heritage Conservation and Seismicity by Elizabeth Aitken Rose (University of Auckland) Beyond Nostalgic Appeal - The Means and Measures Dictating Heritage Management Trends in Pakistan by Noman Ahmed and Anila Naeem (NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan) Formal Order Out of Informal Chaos – a New Latin American Dialogue between the Official Practice of Heritage Conservation and the Concept of Self-Organization by Jaime Correa (University of Miami) SECTION 2 – RE-EVALUATING AN AGING PAST Towards an integrative and empathetic heritage conservation: The Case of Kandy, Sri Lanka by Kapila D. Silva (University of Kansas) Rural Cultural Landscapes and the Purposes of Heritage - the case of the Cultural Landscape of Bali Province (Indonesia) by Kristal Buckley, Deakin University (Australia) Continuing Culture and Meeting Modernity: The World Heritage Villages of Shirakawa-Gō and Gokayama, Japan by Rana P.B. Singh (Banaras Hindu University) Visioning Cultural Heritage and Planning: Banaras, the Cultural Capital of India by Rana P. B Singh & Pravin s. Rana (Banaras Hindu University) Natural, Cultural, and Heritage Landscapes: Intersections of authenticity, preservation, landscape, and heritage in rock art conservation by Kristin Barry (Ball State University) SECTION 3 – EMBRACING AN UNDERESTIMATED HERITAGE Revaluing Industrial Heritage: Transformation of the Port District in Nantes, France by Ann Borst (Wentworth Institute of Technology) Accumulating Memory: The Shenzhen Value Factory by Eric Schuldenfrei (University of Hong Kong) From obsolete military infrastructure to public space: the evolving identity of Latvia’s Riga Central Market by Mia Bennett (University of California Los Angeles) The Once and Future Dingbat: Conserving Dingbats’ Future will Require Redressing their Past by Elizabeth Faletta (University of Southern California) Dwelling in Possibility? A Case Study of Deep Heritage Conservation: Liverpool’s Temple of Humanity by Matthew Wilson (Ball State University) SECTION 4 – BALANCING NATIVE & FOREIGN Ritual Practice and Place Conflict: Negotiating a Contested Landscape along Jamaica Bay by Alison Hirsch (University of Southern California) Modern Infrastructure and Historic Urban Landscape: Re-Evaluating Local Conservation Practices in Light of Hanoi’s Metro Project by Huê-Tâm Jamme (University of Southern California) and Floriane Ortega Chinatowns as Territorial Trope: A Case Study of Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles by Mari Fujita (University of British Columbia) Theming as a preservation tool? On the authenticity of Thames Town, the English village of Shanghai by Maria Francesca Piazzoni (University of Southern California) Designs upon Jerusalem: Bezalel Academy occupies the historic Russian Compound by Christopher Pokarier & Erez Golani Solomon (Waseda University)