scholarly journals Cultural landscape management through the application of environmental certifications

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (74) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalia Coelho Sozzi de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Environmental Certification

Environmental certifications are a tool that aims to measure and evaluate the environmental quality of buildings and their surroundings, with potential collaboration in urban planning. Among the various cultural landscapes that constitute the cities, the historical landscapes can report unique images of urban places, acting as testimonies of the past, which establish connections with the present and serve as reference for the construction of the future. Thus, the need to work the heritage field in sustainable urban management policies is demonstrated. Based on analytical research in the fields of environmental certification and cultural landscape, and documentary research on the Urban-Landscape Set on Avenida Köeler, in the Historic Center of Petrópolis/RJ, the possibility of certifying the set through AQUA/HQE - Neighborhoods was assessed. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of the environmental certification instrument with regard to the maintenance of historical and cultural values ​​and to the physical conservation of this complex. In addition to meeting the objectives and indicators, the opportunity to establish an urban management program to achieve with excellence the performance of high environmental quality is evident. This study also shows that when analyzing the certification guidelines, as far as the cultural dimension is concerned, a review is needed to better cover the heritage issue, to establish specific guidelines for the conservation of existing landscapes as an incentive to the preservation and promotion of urban quality for current and future generations.

scholarly journals A Philosophical Topography of Place and Non-Place: Lithuanian Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
Odeta Žukauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Questions

Drawing on French anthropologist Marc Augé and his seminal book Non-Places (1995) the author pays attention to the transformation of contemporary urban landscapes. In thinking trough the dialectic of place and non-place, this paper aims to account for the apparent sense of placelesness in our cultural landscapes and in increasingly globalised world. If we want to ask fundamental questions about what has happened to our urban landscape and to the spirit of cities during the last decades then the concepts of place and non-place help us to describe the actual changes. Besides, Augé’s work gives us the methodological tools to address philosophical questions about the nature of supermodernity and the relationship between modernity and postmodernity moving toward new conditions of globality. This article will attempt to apply anthropological and philosophical concepts of place and space to the context of Lithuania, comparing the ways of spreading of non-places (non-lieu) in the Soviet modernity and contemporary global, hyper-visual and liquid cultural landscape.

Cultural Landscapes: The Future in the Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selena Bagnara Milan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

The cultural dimension of any cultural landscape embodies various aspects associated with the local community that act as a generating force. Conversely, cultural landscapes play a crucial role in people’s quality of life and sense of belonging, their features contributing to the overall landscape perception and character. Therefore, all heritage management and conservation approaches ought to be based on the identification and consideration of this interrelationship and provide a shared vision—within a global context—through the adoption of cross-disciplinary methods of analysing, evaluating and monitoring cultural landscapes in all their dimensions over time. Within the above conceptual framework, this article attempts to present a meaningful contribution for specific challenges and opportunities connected with the management of cultural landscapes reflecting their multifunctional acceptation. Considering that the development of a management plan is part of a higher management process as well as an essential tool for creating agreement among stakeholders and professionals, the article concludes with an outlook on landscape future scenarios, highlighting those forward-looking approaches that are more effective in governing change in such a way that cultural landscapes’ significant functions and values endure, along with supporting cultural and human sustainable development based on a balanced and critical assessment of the community interests.

scholarly journals NILAI BUDAYA PADA LANSKAP INDUSTRI PERKEBUNAN KINA CINYIRUAN BANDUNG PADA MASA KOLONIAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Lia Nuralia ◽  
Iim Imadudin
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
The Government ◽  
Industrial Archeology ◽  
Desk Research

Perkebunan Kina Cinyiruan di Bandung telah berdiri sejak tahun 1855. Sekarang ini telah menjadi kebun afdeeling dari Perkebunan Kertamanah PTPN VIII, sejak digabungkan secara manajerial di masa kemerdekaan. Jejaknya dapat ditelusuri sebagai lanskap budaya industri perkebunan berupa area bekas kebun kina dan permukiman emplasemen, yang mengandung nilai budaya. Apa dan bagaimana nilai budaya tersebut menjadi permasalahan pokok dalam tulisan ini. Metode penelitian adalah desk research dengan pendekatan arkeologi industri serta konsep nilai budaya dan lanskap budaya. Hasil yang diperoleh adalah lanskap budaya industri Perkebunan Kina Cinyiruan memiliki tata guna lahan beragam dengan tinggalan budaya benda beraneka fungsi. Nilai budaya yang terkandung di dalamnya merupakan nilai budaya tradisional Sunda dan nilai budaya kolonial, terkait kearifan lokal dan teknologi modern barat. Kedua nilai budaya tersebut tampak pada tata letak dan arsitektur bangunan permukiman, serta tata guna lahan area kebun sebagai sistem ekonomi subsistensi dan perkebunan sebagai sistem ekonomi modern Barat yang komersial.The Cinyiruan quinine plantation in Bandung has been established since 1855. After the managerial merger during the independence of Indonesia, it is now the government-owned plantation of PTPN VIII Kertamanah. The existence of the plantation can be traced as a cultural landscape of the plantation industry. It includes the area of the former quinine plantation and the emplacement settlement. Both contain cultural values. The main problem in this paper comprise what and how the values are. The research method used is the desk research with an industrial archeology approach and the concept of cultural values and cultural landscapes. The results obtained indicate that the cultural landscape of the Cinyiruan quinine plantation industry has a variety of land uses with cultural relics of various functions. The cultural values contained are the Sundanese traditional cultural values and colonial cultural values which relate to the local wisdom and western modern technology. These two cultural values are traceable in the layout and architecture of residential buildings as well as the land use of the garden area as a subsistence economic system and the plantations as a modern commercial Western economic system.  

scholarly journals The place of archaeology in integrated cultural landscape management

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Tom Moore ◽  
Vincent Guichard ◽  
Jesús Álvarez Sanchís
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Archaeological Heritage

Across Europe, landscape is recognised as a frame through which societal values are defined and embedded. The European Landscape convention and wider research has drawn attention to the need for integrating a diverse range of stakeholders to ensure landscape sustainability. Archaeology is increasingly recognised as having an important place in integrated landscape management but often remains relatively peripheral. This paper examines the place of archaeology in specific European regions and the potential ways of integrating archaeological heritage in landscape management. Emerging from a project funded by the Joint Programme Initiative on Cultural Heritage (Resituating Europe’s FIrst Towns (REFIT): A case study in enhancing knowledge transfer and developing sustainable management of cultural landscapes), we explore the place of a set of common European heritage assets, Iron Age oppida, in the management of the landscape they are a part of and how they might be used better to engage and connect stakeholders. Using four case studies, we review the present integration of archaeology within landscape management and how this operates at a local level. From this we explore what challenges these case-studies present and outline ways in which the REFIT project has sought to develop strategies to respond to these in order to enhance and promote co-productive management of these landscapes.

Applying the Historic Urban Landscape Approach to the Conservation of Historic Cities in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 639-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Management System ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
Historic Cities ◽  
Ways Of Life

This paper explores the comprehensive perspective of Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) through the evolution of cultural landscape theories as well as World Heritage cultural landscapes. It analyzes the adaptation of HUL in Chinese cultural, political and social context. In particularly, it proposes a thematic framework for the application of HUL in historic cities in China. The framework consists of three main themes and several sub-themes embracing dimensions such as perception of landscape, land-use, ways of life, spiritual or social-economic associations with landscape, and tools which can be used for identification of value. The research attempts to highlights the contribution that the HUL approach could make to the existing planning and management system for the conservation of historic cities in China.

scholarly journals Forest Area Changes in Cinque Terre National Park in the Last 80 Years. Consequences on Landslides and Forest Fire Risks

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Antonio Santoro ◽  
Martina Venturi ◽  
Francesco Piras ◽  
Beatrice Fiore ◽  
Federica Corrieri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre, one of the most important Italian cultural landscapes, has not been spared from depopulation and agricultural abandonment processes, that involved many rural areas in Europe, as a consequence of socio-economic transformations that occurred after WWII. Depopulation of rural areas, especially in mountains or in terraced areas, caused significant environmental consequences, such as the decrease of biodiversity, the landscape homogenization, the increase of hydrogeological and forest fires risks. Cinque Terre National Park (5TNP) was established in 1999, and, differently from other Italian National Parks, not just for protecting natural habitats, but mainly to preserve, restore and valorize the historical terraced landscape. Moreover, the area is a UNESCO cultural landscape site and it is partly protected by three Sites of Community Importance. The research intended to investigate the transformations that have affected forested areas inside the 5TNP in the period 1936–2018, also highlighting the connections with hydrogeological and forest fires risks, as a support for the Park planning strategies and the conservation of the UNESCO site. Results highlighted that 37% of the current forests are the consequence of dry stones terraces abandonment that occurred in the twentieth century, with negative effects on the stability of steep slopes, hydrogeological risk, forest fires and on the conservation of a unique cultural landscape. This confirms the current national trend showing no deforestation occurring, but rather a continuous increase of forests on abandoned land. While 5TNP policies and actions are effectively aimed at pursuing an equilibrium between cultivated areas and forests, the Sites of Community Importance located inside the Park mainly focuses on the conservation of “natural habitats”, even if the current vegetation is also the result of secondary successions on former cultivated land. The research highlighted the need to valorize “cultural values” in forest planning as well as the importance of forest history for an accurate planning of forest resources in protected areas.

Understanding and Recreating Historical Landscapes through Oral History, Architectural and Archival Research—A Methodology: The Case of the Royal Gardens of Rajnagar, Bundelkhand

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishant Upadhyay ◽  
Anjaneya Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Research Survey

Bundelkhand lies in the central part of India including 6 districts in northern Madhya Pradesh and 7 districts in southern Uttar Pradesh (13 districts in total). In Bundelkhand, a series of walled gardens of similar type (presumably of second half of the eighteenth/beginning of the nineteenth century) can be seen all across the region. These gardens are part of the social and cultural life of the Bundeli people, but still their historical and cultural values cannot be ascertained. Thus, in order to understand these gardens, a very detailed understanding of the regional landscape needs to be developed. This research article aims to understand and regenerate the cultural landscape of Rajnagar in Bundelkhand based on archival research, architectural documentation and oral history narratives. The article elaborates upon the methodology followed to obtain sufficient information about the original planning, design and functions of the gardens, and the sociocultural spatial configuration of historical Rajnagar. Architectural and oral surveys were undertaken to generate data at settlement and garden level along with the archival research. Survey of the oral history regarding the settlement and general association with the gardens immensely facilitated to position the gardens in the historical context, given the lack of archival evidence. The interpolation of the three sources of data allowed to understand the pattern of evolution of the historical settlement of Rajnagar and the connections with the royal gardens within the settlement. Apart from furthering the understanding about these unique urban landscape phenomenon, the survey results contribute to the preparation of a sustainable tourism development plan for the royal Bundeli gardens of Rajnagar by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) Belgium. The multiple oral and architectural surveys also raised awareness within the town about the historical Bundeli garden landscapes.

scholarly journals The Degree of Landscape Openness as a Manifestation of Cultural Metamorphose

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Plit ◽  
Urszula Myga-Piątek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Landscape Type ◽  
Synthetic Indicator ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
Anthropogenic Processes ◽  
Environment Evolution

Abstract The issues of aesthetic assessment of landscapes has now become important due to the need of rational and balanced cultural landscape management and the implementation of the provisions of the European Landscape Convention. The aim of this article is to show the methodology of the assessment and interpretation of the degree of the current openness of the cultural landscape of Poland as an effect of a historical process. The chronological analysis made it possible to single out stages of opening/enclosing of the landscapes of Poland with reference to crucial natural, historical and cultural factors. The degree of landscape openness may be treated as a synthetic indicator of the natural and cultural environment evolution. When a landscape type is viewed as a result of natural and anthropogenic processes, the analysis of proportions between the surface of natural and cultural elements becomes of prime importance. In the historical times, the process of landscape enclosing was not unidirectional. Four stages of transformation of cultural landscapes in Poland have been distinguished. These stages are characterized by differences of the landscape openness. It can be interpreted as the result of cultural metamorphosis.

The Cultural Landscape

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Nicolson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
First Time

Cultural landscapes are the combined works of man and nature and it is only by studying this dynamic interaction that the essence of the resulting cultural landscapes can be fully appreciated and valued. Differences and similarities between western and eastern perceptions and artistic expressions of landscape are discussed to establish the cultural values that underpin our understanding and interpretation of the natural and built world. The way by which the cultural landscape concept attained international recognition as a more holistic approach to define and interpret heritage sites is outlined. World Heritage definitions of the different categories of cultural landscape, namely, designed, organically evolved, and associative, are described using examples inscribed on the World Heritage List. Examples of equivalent categories of cultural landscapes in Hong Kong are then presented to introduce the concept and, for the first time, highlight their heritage value.

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