A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Heritage Places:
Evolving Conceptions and Changing Forms
A single, clear definition of “heritage place” has proved elusive – both to those who seek to widen and generalize the term to include all types, dates, and scales of localities worth protecting, and to those who seek to narrow it to historical, religious, or aesthetic criteria. This chapter traces the evolving social function of landmarks and places of collective memorialization over the centuries. It suggests that attempts to formulate a definition of “heritage place” should not focus on its material or visible character, but rather on the type of social behavior associated with it. Heritage places, it will be argued, are sites of public reflection on the relation of past to present, and indeed it is the sheer variety of objects that have attracted such reflection that makes a strictly site‐based definition less useful than one based on social acts of remembrance.
Heritage Places:
Evolving Conceptions and Changing Forms
A single, clear definition of “heritage place” has proved elusive – both to those who seek to widen and generalize the term to include all types, dates, and scales of localities worth protecting, and to those who seek to narrow it to historical, religious, or aesthetic criteria. This chapter traces the evolving social function of landmarks and places of collective memorialization over the centuries. It suggests that attempts to formulate a definition of “heritage place” should not focus on its material or visible character, but rather on the type of social behavior associated with it. Heritage places, it will be argued, are sites of public reflection on the relation of past to present, and indeed it is the sheer variety of objects that have attracted such reflection that makes a strictly site‐based definition less useful than one based on social acts of remembrance.
Heritage Places:
Evolving Conceptions and Changing Forms
Logan, William (editor) / Craith, Máiréad Nic (editor) / Kockel, Ullrich (editor) / Silberman, Neil A. (author)
A Companion to Heritage Studies ; 27-40
2015-05-27
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Poland: Military heritage places at risk / Wildenbruch Palace, Swobnica
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