- Title
- Reconceptualising the management of urban regeneration in the Asian region through resilience
- Creator
- Mackee, Jamie
- Relation
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Construction and Property Conference (COBRA 2011). COBRA 2011. Proceedings of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Construction and Property Conference (University of Salford, UK 12-13 September, 2011) p. 1708-1715
- Relation
- http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/research/conference-papers/cobra-2011---reconceptualising-the-management-of-urban-regeneration-in-the-asian-region-through-resilience
- Publisher
- University of Salford
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Recent thinking amongst conservationists, urban planners, and those in the cultural field, has focused on differences in the views and beliefs about cultural heritage and urban regeneration. Examples include the approaches to and understanding of conservation in the Asian region that tend to rely on total reconstruction or restoration to preserve monuments in the urban environment. This is underpinned by the belief in the importance of intangible values as opposed to tangible, the spiritual aspects of a site or place and the relationship between landscape and monument within the cultural landscape. There have been attempts to address these differences. Conservation guidelines such as the Nara Document on Authenticity and charters such as the Burra Charter provide flexibility in interpretations of cultural significance. However, the debate remains fractured and the solutions provided remain firmly within the Western/Euro-centric mechanistic reductionist worldview. This paper proposes and alternative theoretical framework to understanding and interpreting the process of urban regeneration in the Asian region by adopting the principles of resilience thinking. Resilience thinking engages in a transdisciplinary way the dynamic interconnections and interdependencies amongst the key systems of the urban environment. In summary, the work in the field of resilience thinking has made great gains in providing an understanding of the complex nature of social-ecological systems and how these could be better prepared to deal with disturbances and in the long term be sustainable. From the studies on urban resilience there is potential for an exciting opportunity to rethink our understanding of cultural built heritage and urban regeneration as a social-ecological system developing a more universal approach to its regeneration and ultimately its sustainability.
- Subject
- urban regeneration; resilience thinking; cultural built heriatge; adaptive cycles
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/940563
- Identifier
- uon:13039
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781907842191
- Language
- eng
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