Managing Built Heritage

by Worthing, Derek; Bond, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781405119788
• ISBN10: 1405119780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book examines management of the built cultural heritage through the use of the concept of cultural significance. It considers how and why cultural significance is assessed and how it can be used as an effective focus and driver for management strategies and processes. Effective management of the built cultural heritage requires a clear understanding of what makes a place significant (and how that significance might be vulnerable) but the book also emphasises that this understanding of cultural significance must inform all activities in order to ensure that what is important about the place is protected and enhanced. The book was written in the midst of much fundamental rethinking, both nationally and internationally, on approaches to the conservation of our built cultural heritage. Managing Built Heritage: the role of cultural significance is analytical and reflective but also draws on real life examples to illustrate particular issues, looking at current approaches and drawing out best practice. The authors consider key policies and procedures that need to be implemented to help ensure effective management and the book will be useful for specialists in built cultural heritage - conservation officers, built heritage managers, architects, planners and surveyors - as well as for facilities and estates managers whose building stock includes listed buildings or buildings in conservation areas.

Author Biography

Derek Worthing has a professional background in Building Surveying and is a Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Until recently he was Head of the School of Land and Property Management and is now co director of the faculty's Centre for the Study of Sustainable Buildings. He has carried out consultancy work in relation to the built cultural heritage for a number of national organisations and has published research papers in relation to Conservation Plans, the conservation of twentieth century architecture and the maintenance and repair of listed buildings.

Stephen Bond is a Partner in Tuffin Ferraby Taylor and leads its specialist division TFT Cultural Heritage. Formerly Director of the Tower Environs Scheme and Surveyor of the Fabric at Historic Royal Palaces, he is an archaeologist by education and a building surveyor by profession, he is a Course Director for the RICS postgraduate programme in Conservation of the Historic Environment at the College of Estate Management. He is Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol and holds an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the concept of managing through significance

Asset types, their managers and management implications

Cultural Significance

Conservation plans

Managing use and change - aspects of site management

Management plans

Maintenance management

Management tools for historic areas

Heritage impact assessments

Management agreements

Design and Care guides and Quality standards guidance

Epilogue - Sustainable Development

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