Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00159-8
Renata Latuf de Oliveira Sanchez
{"title":"Heritage, urban form and spatial resignification in the production of sustainable Olympic legacies: an urban design analysis of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games","authors":"Renata Latuf de Oliveira Sanchez","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00159-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00159-8","url":null,"abstract":"The Olympic Games have been associated with many urban transformation projects throughout their history, often focusing on city expansion. Recent sustainability concerns, however, constitute a pressing challenge, with the regeneration of central areas fulfilling a key role in existing urban agendas. In this paper, the legacy of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at two proposed centralities was analysed, namely, the Olympic Park, intended as a future neighbourhood to the west of the city, and Porto Maravilha (PM), an urban project aimed at revitalizing a central, historical area of the city. By comparing the Olympic Park and the first provided areas in PM, in terms of selecting urban design criteria through qualitative in loco assessments, this paper focused on analysing the impacts of urban forms and heritage on the consolidation of these two centralities, as well as encouraging social interaction and integration into the city. The analysis results indicated that urban design attributes such as human-scaled, mixed-use, context-based urban spaces could interfere with social interaction and the usability of spaces. Moreover, the repurposing of heritage buildings contributed to urban cohesion for legacy transformation. Hence, novel insights into urban design and heritage could become important for future editions of the Olympics so that host cities may fulfil their sustainability agendas.","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00157-w
Florence Graezer Bideau, Anne-Marie Broudehoux
{"title":"Industrial heritage in the hosting of mega-events: assessing the potential for urban redevelopment and social change?","authors":"Florence Graezer Bideau, Anne-Marie Broudehoux","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00157-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00157-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mega-events, whether sporting (Olympics, World Cup, etc.) or cultural (Exhibitions), are unique moments to study urban dynamics, especially with regard to image and identity construction (Andranovich et al. 2001; Smith 2012; Gold and Gold 2016). For cities and nations alike, mega-events represent unique opportunities to showcase the best of what they have to offer, hoping to bolster tourism and attract inward foreign investment (Grix and Lee 2013; Hayes and Karamichas 2012; Müller and Gaffney 2018). They are important drivers of the urban intervention meant to build a favourable place-image and yield positive economic returns.</p><p>Over the last few decades, critical studies have highlighted how mega-events downplay, or actively invisibilise, their negative impacts on urban dynamics, in terms of growing economic inequality, social polarisation, politics of exclusion, and resident’s dispossession, leading to multiple forms of mega-events’ resistance and opposition (Gruneau and Horne 2015; Sanchez and Broudehoux 2013). Some scholars (Pillay and Bass 2008) have described the resulting material and immaterial transformations in terms of social engineering, while others talk of sustainability and inclusive development goals (Broudehoux 2017; Stanton 2005, 2019). While mega-events are not the only factors influencing local change, they do exacerbate existing trends and, as such, act as a magnifying glass to reveal with clear clarity the interests and values of local decision-makers, especially in terms of heritage preservation.</p><p>Heritage plays a major part in destination branding and attractiveness. Processes and negotiations among individual and institutional actors to identify, acknowledge, and convey a property’s heritage designation are paramount, as they pertain to meanings associated with memory, identity, and space (Carter et al. 2020). In particular, built heritage is an essential element of the urban landscape, a material bearer of values and meaning. It can be a major asset, as an element of cultural offer that can attest to the city’s historical rootedness and level of cultural sophistication. It can also act as a testimony to its trustworthiness as a safe location for investment and tourism.</p><p>Local states increasingly mobilise industrial heritage sites to host mega-events as a strategy to promote urban development, place branding, and societal change (Theurillat and Graezer Bideau 2022). Led by public-private coalitions of interest that remain faithful to the urban entrepreneurialism governance strategies described by Harvey a few decades ago (Harvey 1989), these endeavours impact both infrastructure and landmark development, as well as ecological and social environments. The paper by Graezer Bideau, Deng and Roux compares dominant discourses surrounding the reuse of industrial heritage in the context of mega-events. Specifically, it analyses the Shanghai 2010 World Expo and the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Meanwhile, Zha","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00152-1
Yujie Zhu
{"title":"Evolving heritage in modern China: transforming religious sites for preservation and development","authors":"Yujie Zhu","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00152-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00152-1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the intricate interactions between heritage and religion in modern China, as well as the broader social and political implications of these interactions in relation to national heritage policies and local developmental practices. By conducting a longitudinal analysis of the social history of Baosheng Temple, this research traces its transformations over the past hundred years from a historically religious site to a local built heritage dedicated to preserving and displaying religious relics. This transformation highlights a shift in the role of religious relics from carriers of practice and thought to focal points for heritage preservation, aimed at supporting nation-building and, more recently, promoting local development through the tourism industry. These changes reflect continuous local responses to broader social transformations towards a modern nation-state as well as the influence of Western ideas and practices. The findings of this research illuminate the evolving values associated with religious heritage and the corresponding implications for Chinese modernity within a secular state context.","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0
Christina E. Mediastika, Anugrah S. Sudarsono, Sentagi S. Utami, Teguh Setiawan, James G. Mansell, Revianto B. Santosa, Army Wiratama, Ressy J. Yanti, Laurence Cliffe
{"title":"The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum","authors":"Christina E. Mediastika, Anugrah S. Sudarsono, Sentagi S. Utami, Teguh Setiawan, James G. Mansell, Revianto B. Santosa, Army Wiratama, Ressy J. Yanti, Laurence Cliffe","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0","url":null,"abstract":"Kotagede, the capital of the ancient Mataram Kingdom and currently an area in the Yogyakarta Province of Indonesia, is known as a ‘real living museum’. It was previously a residential area with many vital premises and heritage buildings that became a tourist area. Its locally established activities enrich the visual and sound environment of the vicinity. However, it has gradually lost its distinguishing sounds. A series of studies aims to improve the possibility of restoring past soundmarks to preserve the intangible heritage and make living museums as rich as possible. This paper reports the initial stage of the series, which focuses on capturing the rich historical sounds of Kotagede. The study was carefully designed to collect comprehensive data on heritage sounds using qualitative methods consisting of an initial focus group discussion (FGD), in-depth interviews, and a final FGD. These methods resulted in a large amount of data that were processed and classified using the descriptive phenomenology approach with the Colaizzi protocol. The study found that Kotagede has various soundmarks grouped into local and outside sounds. The locally rooted sounds can be grouped into eight categories, some of which can be extended as past and present sounds and a few that have persisted from the past to the present. In the subsequent stage, this classification and local leaders' concerns helped the researchers select and prioritise sounds for preservation and tourism purposes. The study emphasises the importance of choosing suitable participants to provide detailed and comprehensive information.","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00135-2
Maurizio Marinelli
{"title":"The politics of heritage in a river-city: imperial, hyper-colonial, and globalising Tianjin","authors":"Maurizio Marinelli","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00135-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00135-2","url":null,"abstract":"The intent of this article is to analyse the interconnectedness between urban transformation and eco-heritage value over time in Tianjin from a river-city perspective. The focus is on the Hai River’s (海河) contribution to the mechanisms of space and power in imperial, hyper-colonial, and globalising Tianjin. After an analytical excursus of the Haihe’s historical-political-economic roles, attention is given to the Haihe as the fulcrum of Tianjin's creation as a spectacle city in present times. The objectives are to elucidate the Tianjin Municipal Government-led urban ‘beautification’ strategy and analyse the aims and objectives of the 2002 ‘Comprehensive Reconstruction and Redevelopment Plan of the Haihe’s Riversides’ while also considering the actual experience of this transformation. The premise of this article is that the Haihe River has helped determine Tianjin’s politics of design via heritagisation: the historical processes through which cultural heritage is adapted to strategically promote favourable imagery of the river-city for political management purposes.","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00155-y
Maximilian Felix Chami, Elinaza Mjema
{"title":"Correction: Local community engagement and gazettement approach in managing and conserving Pangani historic town in Tanzania","authors":"Maximilian Felix Chami, Elinaza Mjema","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00155-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00155-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000<b>Correction</b><b>: </b><b>Built Heritage 8, 31 (2024)</b>\u0000</p><p><b>https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00148-x</b></p><br/><p>Following publication of the original article (Chami and Mjema 2024), the authors reported an error in the Acknowledgements section.</p><p>The originally published Acknowledgements statements were:</p><p>Authors wish to thank the Institute of German Archaeological Institute (DAI), who supported this work in Pangani. We also would like to thank the National Museum of Tanzania through the Department of Monument and Sites for providing permits to conduct this activity.</p><p>The correct Acknowledgements section should read:</p><p>This research work was part of the 'Pangani Shared Colonial Heritage Project' funded by the Culture Preservation Programme (KEP) of the German Foreign Office at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in 2023. We also would like to thank the National Museum of Tanzania through the Department of Monument and Sites for providing permits to conduct this activity.</p><p>The original article (Chami and Mjema 2024) has been updated.</p><ul data-track-component=\"outbound reference\" data-track-context=\"references section\"><li><p>Chami, M.F., and E. Mjema. 2024. Local community engagement and gazettement approach in managing and conserving Pangani historic town in Tanzania. <i>Built Heritage</i> 8: 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00148-x.</p><p>Article Google Scholar </p></li></ul><p>Download references<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" height=\"16\" role=\"img\" width=\"16\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-eds-i-download-medium\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"></use></svg></p><h3>Authors and Affiliations</h3><ol><li><p>Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, P.O Box 35050, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania</p><p>Maximilian Felix Chami & Elinaza Mjema</p></li></ol><span>Authors</span><ol><li><span>Maximilian Felix Chami</span>View author publications<p>You can also search for this author in <span>PubMed<span> </span>Google Scholar</span></p></li><li><span>Elinaza Mjema</span>View author publications<p>You can also search for this author in <span>PubMed<span> </span>Google Scholar</span></p></li></ol><h3>Corresponding author</h3><p>Correspondence to Maximilian Felix Chami.</p><p><b>Open Access</b> This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds ","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of the impact of entrance space on indoor air quality in vernacular dwellings in desert areas during sandstorms","authors":"Xinyu Zhang, Yushu Liang, Shanshan Shi, Guofeng Shen","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00149-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00149-w","url":null,"abstract":"Alxa League, located in the western part of Inner Mongolia, China, frequently suffers from sandstorms. Such dusty conditions result in sharp increases in respirable particulate matter (PM10) concentration in outdoor and indoor environments, posing a significant health risk to local inhabitants. Vernacular dwellings in this area feature a specific floor plan that includes an entrance space to safeguard indoor air quality during sandstorms while being compatible with the local climate. This study utilises CONTAM, a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis computer program, and field measurements to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of the entrance space in protecting indoor air quality against ambient PM10 pollution under both dusty and normal conditions. The simulation results reveal that the entrance space can effectively mitigate PM10 pollution in the middle room, lowering the average concentration from 47.0 μg/m3 to 37.5 μg/m3 during dust periods. However, PM10 pollution may increase in the entrance space, reaching an average concentration of up to 70.0 μg/m3. Experimental outcomes align with the simulated results. Given that construction activities exacerbate desertification and frequent sandstorms, the above findings help identify the optimal design strategies for energy-efficient green vernacular dwellings in the targeted desert area, promoting environmental harmony and addressing climate change challenges.","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00143-2
Pascal Honisch
{"title":"Making history, making place—contextualising the built heritage of world expos 2010 and 2015","authors":"Pascal Honisch","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00143-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00143-2","url":null,"abstract":"Be it the 1873 World’s Fair in Vienna, which established the city's status as a link between the Occident and Orient, or the very first Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, which showcased the then British empire to a global public and the world to its domestic visitors. World’s fairs have been and are still an indispensable part of a shared human history as well as an indicator of a country's economic and cultural relevance on a global scale. They are undoubtedly politically motivated drivers of collective memories and, in turn, nation-building processes. This is why they are not only publicly discussed and thoroughly documented in archives but also often manifested in buildings that long outlast these events and themes but continue to tell their tales. This article elaborates on the ways in which world’s fairs (or expos) have been used as catalysts to develop cities and how they themselves – though ephemeral phenomena – ultimately found their way into urban landscapes and historiography. Moreover, based on his own empirical studies on the last two expos of Shanghai (2010) and Milan (2015), the author elaborates on the placemaking procedures that precede and follow these mega-events, reflecting on the ensuing public discourse to (de)legitimate them, its limitations, and effects on the urban legacy of the aforementioned expos. He then presents an overarching discussion on their built heritage.","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00150-3
Yichuan Chen
{"title":"When concrete was considered sustainable: ecological crisis, technological transition and the prefabricated concrete rural houses in Jiangsu Province from 1961 to the 1980s","authors":"Yichuan Chen","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00150-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00150-3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the creation, development, and dissemination of prefabricated concrete rural houses in Jiangsu Province in East China from 1961 to the 1980s, an example of the technological transition provoked by the depletion of forest and timber in China. Through archival research, fieldwork and interviews, the paper examines the two waves of design and dissemination of prefabricated concrete rural houses between 1961 and 1965 and their subsequent ‘vernacularisation’ in the 1970s and the 1980s. This research provides a twofold insight into the current scholarly debates surrounding built heritage and global climate change. On one hand, it addresses a historical context of concrete overuse in contemporary China, a matter of critical importance in relation to carbon emissions and global climate change. On the other hand, it offers a counter-argument to today's call for reintroducing timber structures in many places, as evidenced by the case of East China, where the widespread use of materials like concrete was primarily a consequence of the ecological crisis following decades of deforestation and timber resource depletion. In addition, the ‘vernacularisation’ of concrete structures manifested by this case still provides lessons for today’s efforts to popularise more eco-friendly construction materials and technologies, especially in rural areas, and the prefabricated concrete houses possess potential heritage values as trackers of ecological changes.","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Built HeritagePub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1186/s43238-024-00147-y
Lucas Lixinski
{"title":"50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation, by Marie-Theres Albert, Roland Bernecker, Claire Cave, Anca Claudia Prodan and Matthias Ripp. Springer Cham, 2022. 504pp. ISBN9783031056628","authors":"Lucas Lixinski","doi":"10.1186/s43238-024-00147-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00147-y","url":null,"abstract":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"//media.springernature.com/lw335/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1186%2Fs43238-024-00147-y/MediaObjects/43238_2024_147_Figa_HTML.png\"/><p>This open access volume brings together 38 chapters that reflect on different facets of the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (WHC). The WHC is one of the world’s most successful treaty regimes of all times in terms of its widespread ratification and recognizability, and certainly the most successful one under UNESCO’s umbrella. The volume’s publication, timed to coincide with the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the treaty’s adoption, marks an apt moment for celebration, reflection, and mobilisation.</p><p>The volume particularly focuses on the idea of ongoing threats to world heritage and its regime, and the idea of destruction. As the editors put it in their concluding chapter to the volume, ‘Heritage creates identity and the destruction of heritage destroys identity.’ (p. 482). The stakes for the world on which the volume seeks to have an impact are high indeed.</p><p>The volume is the product of a series of workshops the editors held over the course of 2021, followed by an international conference. In addition to two introductory chapters (Part I) and six chapters dedicated to ‘the day after tomorrow’ for the WHC (Part III), the bulk of the book (Part II) is organised around six specific themes that foreground threats to the WHC: global governance; urban transformation; war and terrorism; climate change; technological change; and commodification.</p><p>Part I of the book contains two introductory texts. One is an overall introduction, authored by all editors, Marie-Theres Albert, Roland Bernecker, Claire Cave, Anca Claudia Prodan, and Matthias Ripp, which describes the purposes of the volume, its background, and summarises all the chapters. The second chapter, by Birgitta Ringbeck, outlines the importance of the WHC, and the need for its reimagining, particularly in terms of its representativeness, and its ability to incorporate voices still largely excluded from its processes. In particular, it argues that the WHC can become a tool to address the ‘losses and breaks caused by colonization’, which ‘still have an impact on the awareness of and the access to heritage, as well as on the possibility to build on conservation policies that have evolved over time, on political attention and, last but not least, on active participation in the implementation of the Convention.’ (p. 24).</p><p>This quote from Ringbeck’s chapter encapsulates, in many ways, what I see as the key tension that runs through the volume. Specifically, the contributors to the volume seem to be all animated by the possibility of reforming the WHC system to make it serve a new or changing world. This view, while wonderfully optimistic, is not without its limits.</p><p>To be fair, the WHC has proven to be a remarkably resilient and adaptable instrument over the past five decades, ","PeriodicalId":33925,"journal":{"name":"Built Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}