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Author Vahtikari, Tanja

Title Valuing World Heritage Cities
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Series Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
Routledge cultural heritage and tourism series.
Contents Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Heritage: multi-scale social and cultural construction; World Heritage cities: accepted and rejected; Data and methods; Chapter overview; Notes; 2 Intrinsic value, uncontestable expertise: ICOMOS, UNESCO and outstanding universal value; The World Heritage Convention in context; The universal claim of value; World Heritage values in perspective; Constructing outstanding universal value: the expertise of ICOMOS; Notes; 3 Catching up with "the spirit of the moment."
Broadening concepts of World HeritageUrban heritage as part of the definition of a "new era"; Notes; 4 World Heritage cities: which urban pasts? Whose urban histories?; Chronologies of urban World Heritage; Transnational and national narratives of outstanding universal value; Historical narratives embedded in political and economic history; Unanimous urban heritage; Naming and taming World Heritage cities; Notes; 5 World Heritage cities: what urban futures?; Urban monuments; Townscapes and urban sceneries: dominance of the visual; World Heritage cities in their territorial relationships
Outstanding universal value and urban lifeWorld Heritage cities, authenticity and change: an ambiguous relationship; Notes; 6 Outstanding universal value and the local narrative of place and heritage: Old Rauma; Making Old Rauma: Different senses of heritage; Outstanding universal value of Old Rauma: Two definitions; "Lively wooden town," but to what extent?; Protecting liveliness as outstanding universal value: Building a shopping center in the World Heritage buffer zone; Not writing to UNESCO: Local, national and global ownership of heritage; Notes; 7 Conclusions
Pre-structured objectivity discourseICOMOS evaluations and the "authorized heritage discourse"; World Heritage framing local heritage; A future for urban World Heritage; Notes; Appendices; Appendix 1: World Heritage cities (with their official full titles) by year, state and UNESCO Region; Appendix 2: Rejected urban World Heritage nominations; Appendix 3: The use of cultural heritage criteria in reference to cities; Bibliography; Index
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Subject International Council of Monuments and Sites -- Decision making
SUBJECT International Council of Monuments and Sites fast
Subject World Heritage areas.
Historic preservation -- Decision making
Cultural property -- Preservation -- Decision making
World Heritage Sites.
Decision making
World Heritage areas
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317002581
131700258X
9781317002598
1317002598