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1 online resource (900 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; General introduction; The Asian built environment; Influences on Asia's built environment; Aims of architectural conservation; Asian traditions in heritage conservation; Local, national and international operations; INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WORKING IN ASIAN ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION; Challenges faced in Asian conservation practice; DISASTER RISKS AND PREVENTATIVE ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION, BY CHRISTOPHER MARRION; Meeting the challenge; THE POWER OF EXAMPLE: UNESCO ASIA-PACIFIC HERITAGE AWARDS PROGRAM |
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ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION TRAINING IN ASIA, BY WILLIAM CHAPMANEast meets West in conservation practice; Influences of Asian conservation abroad; CHARTERS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS RELATIVE TO ASIAN ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION, BY JAMES REAP; The high stakes of conservation; PART I EAST ASIA; Introduction; 1 Japan; A legacy of building, re-building and preservation; RESTORATION OF FIRE-DAMAGED WALL MURALS AT HŌRYŪ-JI TEMPLE; THE NARA DOCUMENT ON AUTHENTICITY; Preservation in a modernizing Japan; MACHIYA AND PROSPECTS FOR THEIR PRESERVATION; The rise of contemporary practice |
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PRESERVING JAPAN'S LIVING HERITAGE, A SEMINAL IDEA IN THE CONSERVATION OF INTANGIBLE HERITAGELESSONS IN DAMAGE MITIGATION TO CULTURAL HERITAGE FROM THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI, BY WESLEY CHEEK; 2 The People's Republic of China; CHINA'S LOST PAST AND LEGISLATIVE RESPONSE -- OVERVIEW; DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE ARCHITECTURE; Foreign intervention: a historic threat to Chinese heritage; Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Chinese heritage conservation policy; EARLY LEADERSHIP IN ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION: LIANG SICHENG; THE CHINA PRINCIPLES |
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Urban conservation: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and MacauREPURPOSING INDUSTRIAL SPACES FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS: BEIJING, SHANGHAI AND HONG KONG, BY BENJAMIN CLAVAN; Regional conservation initiatives: Tibet, Three Gorges, the Great Wall and Heritage Towns in Southern China; LIJIANG AND SHAXI: DUAL APPROACHES TO CONSERVING URBAN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE; 3 Taiwan (Republic of China); THE DEFINING ROLE OF TAIWAN'S MUSEUM COLLECTIONS; TAIWAN'S JAPANESE COLONIAL INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE; ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ORDINARY, BY LAKE DOUGLAS; 4 South and North Korea |
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TRADITIONAL KOREAN ARCHITECTURE: A NEARLY LOST HERITAGEArchitectural conservation in North Korea; Architectural conservation in South Korea; Challenges of urban conservation in South Korea; SOUTH KOREA'S INTANGIBLE HERITAGE LIST; NEW DESIGN IN HERITAGE CONTEXTS, BY WILLIAM CHAPMAN; 5 Mongolia; CONSERVATION AND REVIVAL OF BUDDHIST MONASTERIES; HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND NATION BUILDING, BY ALEXANDRA CLEWORTH; Organized cultural heritage protection; CONSERVING IMPERMANENT DOMESTIC STRUCTURES: GERS AND SOVIET-ERA HOUSING; Conclusion to Part I; PART II SOUTHEAST ASIA MAINLAND COUNTRIES |
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Introduction |
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Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Asia
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Asia
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Architecture -- Conservation and restoration
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Cultural property -- Protection
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Asia
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Thomson, Robert G
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| ISBN |
9781317406181 |
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1317406184 |
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