Valuing Historic Environments

摘要

The term Historic Environments in the title of this collection of essays is a conventional one in heritage conservation practice, but the scope of the papers is far broader, indeed intended to answer a "contemporary imperative to consider different cultural, historical and social values as equal". Inspired by seminars among a research group of academics and heritage practitioners in the UK, it contains a series of papers by UK and Australian contributors, some theoretical and others illustrated by means of case studies or empirical research data, that take a necessarily wide and postmodern view of the how the imperative above could be instrumentalized in heritage conservation practice.