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TOWARDS MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN ADAPTIVE REUSE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Cities face growing challenges from demographics, mass-urbanization, new development projects, tourism growth, and climate change issues, threatening the preservation of their cultural urban heritage. Most of these challenges are related to economic rationale and a better understanding of heritage economics may contribute to urban conservation planning. As cities compete for attracting new residents, visitors, businesses, jobs, skills, talents, and innovations, heritage economics and urban conservation can go hand in hand to improve the liveability of cities, and shape their sustainable development. The integration of heritage economics in urban conservation planning is in line with UNESCO’s commitment to enhance sustainability of cities on the basis of the New Urban Agenda which is embedded in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Goal 11: “Cities being inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and in particular the Target 11.4 “Conserve natural and cultural heritage” addresses the issue of the conservation of natural and cultural heritage. The noticeable point in the list of sustainable development goals is that culture does not appear explicitly, although it is present in most of the other objectives defined by the United Nations. It is peculiar to the field of culture to offer a context that encompas all possible concerns of sustainable development. Culture − and cultural heritage in particular − provides a framework for reflection about all primary and secondary needs of humand kind. Therefore it is not surprising to see culture as the underlying vector for all development and improvement of countries’ basic needs. Thus, cultural policy is a major axis of sustainable development, not only in its capacity to make a direct contribution to the creation of innovative and value-laden goods and services, but also for its capacity to give sense to the other development axes (education, quality of life, health, social policies, diversity, reduction of inequalities, etc.). The particular case of architectural heritage has the same advantages as culture taken as a whole. The tangible heritage renders an essential service to the people by offering a place to live, or a place of be sheltered, while at the same time it creates symbolic and identity values which are essential to the local communities. Uses and non-uses, use values and non-use values are the economic terms of such double dimension of tangible cultural heritage. In parallel, intangible cultural heritage offers a range of services to the benefit of a broad population, while simultaneously giving sense and values to this population. The paradigm of heritage conservation is impacted by this new perspective on culture, and on its central role in sustainable development. In fact, the principle of “culture as a legitimate end in itself” (culture as cultural topic only) is now challenged. In particular in the field of tangible conservation, there is a shift from the monument to its use value. While conservation put emphasis on the works to be done to restore a building, there is a trend for putting more emphasis on the use (and reuse) that will justifiy its preservation.
TOWARDS MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN ADAPTIVE REUSE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Cities face growing challenges from demographics, mass-urbanization, new development projects, tourism growth, and climate change issues, threatening the preservation of their cultural urban heritage. Most of these challenges are related to economic rationale and a better understanding of heritage economics may contribute to urban conservation planning. As cities compete for attracting new residents, visitors, businesses, jobs, skills, talents, and innovations, heritage economics and urban conservation can go hand in hand to improve the liveability of cities, and shape their sustainable development. The integration of heritage economics in urban conservation planning is in line with UNESCO’s commitment to enhance sustainability of cities on the basis of the New Urban Agenda which is embedded in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Goal 11: “Cities being inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and in particular the Target 11.4 “Conserve natural and cultural heritage” addresses the issue of the conservation of natural and cultural heritage. The noticeable point in the list of sustainable development goals is that culture does not appear explicitly, although it is present in most of the other objectives defined by the United Nations. It is peculiar to the field of culture to offer a context that encompas all possible concerns of sustainable development. Culture − and cultural heritage in particular − provides a framework for reflection about all primary and secondary needs of humand kind. Therefore it is not surprising to see culture as the underlying vector for all development and improvement of countries’ basic needs. Thus, cultural policy is a major axis of sustainable development, not only in its capacity to make a direct contribution to the creation of innovative and value-laden goods and services, but also for its capacity to give sense to the other development axes (education, quality of life, health, social policies, diversity, reduction of inequalities, etc.). The particular case of architectural heritage has the same advantages as culture taken as a whole. The tangible heritage renders an essential service to the people by offering a place to live, or a place of be sheltered, while at the same time it creates symbolic and identity values which are essential to the local communities. Uses and non-uses, use values and non-use values are the economic terms of such double dimension of tangible cultural heritage. In parallel, intangible cultural heritage offers a range of services to the benefit of a broad population, while simultaneously giving sense and values to this population. The paradigm of heritage conservation is impacted by this new perspective on culture, and on its central role in sustainable development. In fact, the principle of “culture as a legitimate end in itself” (culture as cultural topic only) is now challenged. In particular in the field of tangible conservation, there is a shift from the monument to its use value. While conservation put emphasis on the works to be done to restore a building, there is a trend for putting more emphasis on the use (and reuse) that will justifiy its preservation.
TOWARDS MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN ADAPTIVE REUSE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Christian Ost (author)
2019-12-31
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
Circular economy strategies in the historic built environment: cultural heritage adaptive reuse
| TIBKAT | 2019