Looking After Heritage Places

by Michael Pearson; Sharon Sullivan

• ISBN13: 9780522845549
• ISBN10: 0522845541
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-04-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xi	(2)
Acknowledgements	xiii
1 Looking After the Past: An Introduction to the Management of Heritage Places	1	(33)
What this book is about	1	(3)
What are heritage places?	4	(3)
What is management?	7	(4)
Why do we conserve heritage places?	11	(5)
The nature of significance	16	(17)
Community heritage values	17	(1)
Value to minority groups	18	(2)
Scientific or research value	20	(1)
Significance and society	21	(1)
The range of heritage places in Australia	22	(11)
Heritage and its inheritors	33	(1)
2 The Legislative and Administrative Framework	34	(48)
Effective legislation	35	(1)
Legislation and politics	36	(1)
Legislation and management	37	(1)
Types of legislation	37	(2)
1 Aboriginal and historic sites protection Acts	37	(1)
2 Notification Acts	38	(1)
3 Land or site management Acts	38	(1)
4 Planning legislation	39	(1)
International conventions and recommendations	39	(5)
National legislation	44	(12)
The implications of listing	48	(2)
Commonwealth protection for Aboriginal places	50	(5)
Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976	55	(1)
State and Territory legislation	56	(20)
Australian Capital Territory	56	(1)
New South Wales	57	(4)
Northern Territory	61	(2)
Queensland	63	(2)
South Australia	65	(2)
Tasmania	67	(2)
Victoria	69	(4)
Western Australia	73	(3)
Other relevant legislation	76	(2)
Using legal measures for active conservation	78	(2)
The administrative framework	80	(1)
How to get a place added to a heritage register	80	(2)
3 Documenting the Resource: Finding and Recording Aboriginal and Historic Places	82	(44)
Documentation and management	86	(2)
Aims and strategies	88	(2)
Gathering background information	90	(6)
Registers	90	(2)
Local histories	92	(2)
Local contacts	94	(2)
Refining aims of the inventory	96	(1)
A place register	96	(1)
Choosing a survey method	97	(6)
The heritage place and its context	103	(3)
Choices for action	106	(1)
Commissioning a survey	106	(1)
Planning an in-house inventory	107	(1)
Practical advice for survey, place recording and documentation	108	(18)
Survey	108	(1)
Place recording and surveying	109	(1)
Simple surveying principles and methods	110	(4)
Other aspects of place recording	114	(2)
Location of the place	116	(1)
Description of the place	117	(1)
What not to do at a heritage place	118	(1)
Some operational difficulties	118	(8)
4 Assessing the Value of Heritage Places	126	(61)
Why is it necessary to assess significance?	127	(5)
Levels of significance assessment	132	(1)
Elements of significance	133	(38)
Aesthetic significance	134	(4)
Architectural value	138	(1)
Historic value	139	(8)
Scientific value	147	(6)
Social value	153	(15)
The nature of cultural significance	168	(3)
Carrying out significance assessment	171	(11)
Research and collection of information	172	(2)
The site in its context	174	(1)
Analysing and synthesizing the evidence	175	(3)
The role of the manager	178	(4)
Conclusion	182	(5)
5 Planning for Heritage Place Management	187	(33)
Introduction	187	(11)
Why management plans?	187	(3)
Levels of management	190	(3)
Levels of planning	193	(5)
The management plan	198	(13)
1 Statement of legal responsibility, philosophy and general policy	198	(1)
2 Description of the heritage place, its assessment and significance	199	(1)
3 Statement of other values	200	(2)
4 Identification of other requirements, opportunities and constraints	202	(7)
5 Formulation of a conservation or management policy	209	(1)
6 Management strategy or implementation plan	210	(1)
Headings for management practices	211	(2)
Provision for review	213	(1)
The manager and the plan	213	(7)
6 Implementing Heritage Place Management: Conservation Processes and Practices	220	(57)
Using legal protection for active conservation	220	(2)
Physical conservation: some principles and issues	222	(8)
Conservation as destruction	222	(1)
Form and fabric	223	(2)
Conservation principles and the Burra Charter	225	(5)
Conservation processes	230	(9)
Preservation	233	(2)
Restoration	235	(1)
Reconstruction	236	(2)
Adaptation	238	(1)
Conservation practices	239	(25)
Knowing what you have	239	(1)
Involvement of experts	240	(1)
Building conservation	241	(4)
Conservation of works other than buildings	245	(1)
Site conservation	246	(18)
Environmental impact procedures and salvage recording	264	(10)
Appraising an environmental impact statement for heritage places	268	(2)
The quality of the survey and statement	270	(2)
Mitigation procedures	272	(2)
Artefact curation	274	(3)
7 Visitor Management and Interpretation	277	(30)
Introduction	277	(2)
Place selection	279	(2)
Researching visitor behaviour	281	(3)
Findings	282	(2)
On-site management	284	(2)
Marketing heritage places	286	(1)
Education and visitor management	287	(1)
The purposes of interpretation	288	(1)
Interpretation in Australia	289	(2)
Ideology and interpretation	291	(2)
Interpreting the place in context	293	(1)
Interpreting the market	294	(1)
Interpretation and cultural significance	295	(1)
Aboriginal place interpretation	296	(1)
Interpretive techniques	297	(3)
Use of consultants	300	(1)
Summary advice	300	(1)
Planning for interpretation and visitor management	301	(2)
Some techniques for visitor management and heritage place interpretation	303	(4)
Physical restrictions/protective measures	303	(1)
Use management	304	(1)
Information, interpretation, motivation, direction	305	(2)
8 Some Current Issues and Future Concerns	307	(13)
Heritage practitioners and heritage in the community	308	(3)
Academics and heritage	311	(1)
Immigrant, ethnic, Aboriginal, woman-the minority heritage	312	(2)
Heritage-who benefits, who pays	314	(1)
Natural and cultural heritage conservation	315	(2)
Conservation of urban districts	317	(1)
Conservation in the late twentieth century	317	(3)
Appendix 1 The Burra Charter	320	(4)
Appendix 2 Code of Ethics of the Australian Archaeological Association	324	(2)
Appendix 3 Thematic List	326	(7)
Appendix 4 Heritage Study Model Brief	333	(8)
Appendix 5 Useful Contacts	341	(5)
Notes	346	(12)
Bibliography	358	(17)
Index	375