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Valuing World Heritage Cities
Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
Author: Vahtikari Tanja
Language: EnglishSubjects for Valuing World Heritage Cities:
Keywords
ICOMOS Evaluation; World Heritage; heritage; World Heritage Committee; World Heritage List; cities; World Heritage Cities; city; World Heritage Convention; urban; World Heritage Framework; cultural heritage; Historic Urban Landscape; UNESCO; Nomination Dossiers; ICOMOS; World Heritage System; cultural geography; Traditional Human Settlement; urban geography; Intangible Heritage; historical geography; World Heritage Area; heritage studies; Outstanding Universal Significance; Vahtikari; La Chaux De Fonds; Tanja Vahtikari; Urban Heritage; historical analysis; Authorized Heritage Discourse; Old Rauma; Vienna Memorandum; Finland; World Heritage Sites; ICOMOS World Heritage; United Nations; Cidade Velha; heritage value; World Heritage Status; International Council on Monuments and Sites; World Heritage Nominations; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Shopping Center Development
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Add to cart the book of Vahtikari TanjaPublication date: 02-2018
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With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism. While it is the national governments that nominate sites for inclusion in the World Heritage List, and the intergovernmental World Heritage Committee that makes the final decision on inclusion or non-inclusion, it is the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) for cultural heritage that determines whether the necessary level of ?outstanding universal value? is met.
Focusing on the discourses of ICOMOS and their transmission to the local context, this book is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities illustrated through a case study of Old Rauma in Finland. The book contributes to the understanding of the discursive and constructed nature of World Heritage values as opposed to intrinsic values, critically scrutinizes the role of ICOMOS in making valuations concerning urban heritage, and sheds light on the interactions and tensions of universal and local (urban) perspectives in the practice of heritage valuation.
Valuing World Heritage Cities is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities in the transnational discourses of heritage. This unique and timely contribution will be of interest to scholars and students working in Heritage Studies, Cultural Geography, Urban Studies and Tourism.
1 Introduction
2 Intrinsic value, uncontestable expertise: ICOMOS, UNESCO and outstanding universal value
3 Catching up with "the spirit of the moment"
4 World Heritage cities: which urban pasts? Whose urban histories?
5 World Heritage cities: what urban futures?
6 Outstanding universal value and the local narrative of place and heritage: Old Rauma
7 Conclusions
Tanja Vahtikari is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research at the University of Tampere, Finland.