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HERITA GE CONSERVATION HERITAGE CONSERVATION DEALS WITH ACTIONS OR PROCESSES THAT ARE AIMED AT SAFEGUARDING THE CHARACTER-DEFINING ELEMENTS OF A CULTURAL RESOURCE TO RETAIN (TS HERITAGE VALUE AND EXTEND MIS PHYSICAL LIFE. HERAGE CONSERVATICN DOESN'T MEAN FREEZING A BUILDING IN TIME, CREATING A MUSEUM, OR TYING THE HANDS OF PROPERTY OWNERS 80 THEY CAN'TOO ANYTHING WITH THEIR PROPERTIES, INSTEAD, IT SEEKS TO MAINTAIN AND THEREBY INCREASE THE VALUE CF BUILDINGS BY KEEPING THEIR ORIGINAL BUILT FORM AND ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS, FAVORING THEIR RESTORATION OVER REPLACEMENT OR DEMOUTION, AND, WHEN RESTORATION IS NOT POSSIBLE, RESPECTFULLY RECREA TING SCALE PERIOD, AND CHARACTER, CONSERVING HERITA GE- HISTORICAL BUILDINGS, FEST ALS, ART FORMS,DANCE, MUSIC, SCULPTURE, EIC. GOOD HERITAGE CONSERVATION STRATEGIES REQURE (A) BETTER APPRECIATION OF THE VALUE OF HERITAGE ASGETS (BCTH TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE) AND (8) INTEGRATION OF SUCH STRATEGIES WITHIN THE LARGER PROCESSES OF PLANNING AND. DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY OR URBAN AREA. HERITAGE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION POLICIES: “HELP BUILD URBAN IDENTITY AND RESIDENTS PRIDE, GO BEYOND JUST RESORTING AND PRESERVING HISTORICAL ASSETS, "LEAD TO WELL-BEING AND SECURITY, THROUGH BROAD COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT. + GENERATE CPPORTUNMIIES FOR JOB CREATION AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION BROADLY, AND IN THE LONG RUN, HELP ACHIEVE SUSTAINABILTY GOALS ASWELL, + Toumow peveLoP MENT + Jocaemon + Powesry REDUCTION. + aan ARAN /=OHIN + mreasrcTuRe/SeRCES, PROMISION + reaneroeranons MANAGEMENT, Figure 1 | i Hemitagt Consenvani on + secuniny ANE sammy Ouse cewuence + commu my WE BENS PARUEIPATION stag vs + cRNA "aE OF Puss” + Umpaneipentiny AND + MerORCAL PRESERVATION ABOVE ILLUSTRATES THE DIMENSIONS OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION THAT AC CRUE NCT ONLY FOR HERITAGE ASSETS BUT ALSO TO LARGER DEVELOPMENT ASPECTS (ACROSS THE X-AXIs). DISTINCTIONS ACROSS THE Y-AXISON THE OTHER HAND SHOW THE BENEFITS AT THE COMMUNTY LEVELAND THE CIty LEVEL SOME OF THE KEY ASPECTS OF THE FOUR QUADRANTS IN THE FIGURE ABOVE ILWSTRATE SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO HERITAGE CONSERVATION, BUT ARE NOT UMMTED TO THESE ALONE, THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER ASPECTS AS WELL - GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MAPPING, FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS. ETC. TYPES OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION CONSOLIDATION- REPACES THE NATURAL CEMENTING MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN LOST OR DAMAGED BY WEATHERING, IMPROVING COHESIVE PROPERTIES fA} -G RARE REPRODUCTION - THE PROCESS OF REPRODUCING THE EXACT GEOME- TRY AND DETAILS OF A DAMAGED ASSEMeLy BY NEW ConsTRUCTI- ON. RECONSTRICTION - RECONSTRUCTS DISAPPEARED CR NON-SURVIVING SECTIONS OF AN ASSEMBLY, PRESERVATION- ACCENTS. ON MAINTE NANCE, REPAIR OF EXISING FEATU- RES AND MATERIALS DETORORATION PERVERSION: ADRESSES UNIQUE PROBLEMS IN PRESERVING HERITAGE AND ITS IDENTITY IN AN EFFECTIVE MANNER, PROTECTION- IMPLENTATION OF LEGAL MEA SURES TO PROTECT CULTURAL HERTIAGE AGAINST DAMAGE, DESTRUCTION, THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT OR LOSS. ADAPTATION UTILIZATION. OF BUILDINGS OTHER CHAN THAT FOR WHICH THEY WERE ORIGIN- ALLY INTENDED IN ORDER TO CONSERVE THE SITE, TS ENGINEERING INTEGRITY, AND AUTHENTICITY OF DESIGN. HERITAGE CYCLE OUR STRATEGY FOR 2005-2010 Enauich HERITAGE EXISTS TO MAKE THE PAST PARTOF CUR FUTURE. Gu SRATERY 18 TO (CREATE CYCLE OF UNDERSTANDING, VALUING, CARING AND EMDYING FOR ERC PARTOF THE CYCLE WE KANE ADOPTED STRATESIC AIMS, THESE ARE UNDERPINNED BY A FURTHER NM = TO MAKE ME INCST EFFECTIE USE CF THE ASSET IN CUR CARE. BY UNDERSTANDING THE HISTOR ENVIRONMENT LO Prope vate I. oS FROM ENJOYING BY VALUING THE HisToRE ENVIRONMENT 1 THEY va ART TO Comes A THIRST TO UNDESTAND CARE FoR IT NN BY CARING _~ PRI Tey WL HELP PECPLE envot it THE HERITAGE CYCLE DIAGRAM GIVES US AN IDEA Cr HOW WWE CAN MAKE THE PAST PART CF OUR FUTURE (SIMON THURLEY, 2005). SIMON THURIEY'S HERITAGE CYCLE PROVIDES A VALUABLE FRAMBAORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS BETWEEN CULTURAL HERITAGE APPRECIATION, PROTECTION, AND CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT. THE CYCLE POSTS THAT A LACK OF PARTICIPATION IN HERITAGE ACTIVITES 16 UNKED TO A DEFICIT (N UNDERSTANDING OR CONCERN FOR THE VULNERABILITY OF HERITAGE THIS DEFICT MODEL SUGGEST THAT FOSTERING KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION CAN LEADTO ADESIRETO PROTECT AND. PRESERVE HERITAGE, THERERY CREATING A POSITVE FEEDBACK LOOP, rm te : 1 THIS CYCLE UNDERSCORESTHE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION IN HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. BY PROMCTING KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION, COMMUNITIES ARE MGRE LIKELY TO ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TOTHE PRESERVATION AN PROTECTION OF THEIR CULTURAL HERITAGE. THE NERTIAGE CYCLE EMPHAQZE THE INTERCONNECTEPNESS OF STUDY, VALUE, PROTECTION, AND ONGOING ENGAGEMENT, PROVIDING A HOLISTIC APPROACHT C HERITAGE CONCER VATION AND MANAGEMENT. SIGNIFICANCE OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION, HERTAGE CONSERVATION IS OF IMMENSE SIGNIFICANCE ACROSS VARIOUS DIMENSIONS, PLAYING A PIVOTAL ROLE IN PRESERVING CULTURAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF OUR SHARED GLOBALLEGACY, ATITS CORE, CONSERVATION SAFEGUARDS THE IDENTTY AND CULTURAL ROOTS OF COMMUNITIES, ACTING ASA TANGIBLE LINK TO THE PASTAND PRESERVING TRAPNIONS, FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, THE EQUCATI OVAL VAWE OF WELL-CONSERVEDHERITAGE SITES CANNGT BE OVERSTATED, OFFERNG AUTHENTIC INSIGHTS INTO HISTORICAL EVENTS, ARCHITECTURAL STYLES, AND SOCIETAL STRUCTURES FLOM AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTWE, HERITAGE SITES DRAW TOURISM, INJECTING REVENUE INTO LOCAL, ECONOMIES AND CREATING JOB OPPORTUNITIES WHILE FOSTERING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY PRIDE, CONSERVATION PRACTICES OFTEN INCORPORATE SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES, CONTRIBUTING TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLITY BY MINIMIZING RESOURCE CONSUMPTION. BEYOND LOCAL BENEFITS, HERTAGE CONSERVATION PROMOTES GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING BY CELEBRATING CULTURAL TIVERSITY AND FOSTERING A SENSE OF SHARED HUMANITY, IT ALSO PLAYS A ROLE IN MITIGATING URBAN SPRAWL, REVITALZING EXISTING URBAN AREAS, AND CONTRIBUTING TO BlOPIVERST CONSERVATION, WITH LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PLACE. HERITAGE CONSERVATION. STANDS AS 4, COMMITMENT TO FUTURE” GENERATIONS ENSRING THE RESLIENCE, IPENTITY, AND RICHNESS OF CUR COLECTIE HERITAGE ENDURE THROUGH TIME, LAWS AND POUCIES ON HERITAGE CONSERVATION HERITAGE CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES SND POLICIES HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT AS A SHARED RESOURCE, OUR ENVIRCNMENT AOLDS A RICK REDORD OF HUMAN ACTIIY SHAPE DBY GENERATIONS, PEOPLE, TREASURE THIS HERTIAGE AS PARTOF THEIR CULTURE AND NATURE, REFLECTING DIVERSE QEIERS AND TRADITIONS. T ADDS MEANING AND QUALITY To OUR SURROUNDINGS, PROVIDING IDENTITY AND ECON OM|CBENEHTS. MT'SIM PORTANITO PRESERVE IT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS WHILE ALOWING CURRENT ENJOY MENT. EVERYONE SHOULD PARTICIPATE LN SUSTAINING THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT EV ERYONE SHOULD PE ABLETO SHARETHEIR INSGHTS ABOUT PLACES AND HAVE A SAY IN DECIQONS ABOUT THER FUTURE, THROUGH ACCESSIBLE AND INCLUSVE MEANS. LEARNING IS KEY TO PRESERVING: Ug BISTORIC ENVIRONMENT, PROVIDING. AWARENESS ANTS UNDERSTANDING ACROSS GENERATIONS AND COMMUNITES. EV PERS HAVE A VITAL ROLE IN EDUCATING AND INSPIRING GTHERS TO APPRECIATE AND CARE FOR HERITAGES\TES. UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLACESIS VAL A PLACE IN THE HISORIC ENVIRONMENT IS ANY DISTINCT PART PERCEIVED BY PEOPLE. TS SAGNIF.CANCE INCLUDES CULTURAL ANDINA TURAL VALJES THAT GROW OVER TIME AS PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS EVOLVE. TO (CENTIFY A PLACES QGHIFICANCE, WE MUS UNDERSTAND Is WSTORY, CONSIDER WHO VALLES TT AND WHY, AND EVAWATE (TS IMPORTANCE RELATIVE 7D IIS SURROUNDINGS. SIGNIFICANT PLACES SHOULD BE MANAGED TS Susr AIN THEIR VALUES CHANGE (S CONSTANT IN THE HISTORIC ENVIRONNENT DUE TC NATURAL PROCESSES, USAGE WEAR AND TEAR, AND SOCIETAL SHIFTS. CONSERVATION INVOLVES MANAGING THIS (CHANGE TG SUSTAIN A PLACE'S HERITAGE VALUES FOR PREENT AND FUILRE GENERATIONS TT REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING =A PLACES SIGNIFICANCE AND TA KING ACTION TO PRESERVE, REVEAL, AND REINFORCE ITS VALUES WHILE MAINTAINING AUTHENTICTY. INTERVENTIONS: SHOULP BE TIMELY, PROPORTIONAL, AND SUSTAINABLE, AIMING. TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OR SUSTAIN HERITAGE VA WES. NEW WORK SHOULD PRIORITZE QUALITY BESGN AND EXECUTION WHILE RESPECTING APLACE'S SIGNIFICANCE, DECISIONS ABOUT CHANGE MUST BE REASONABLE, TRANSP ARENT, AND CONSISTENT DECISIONS REGARDING CHANGES IN THE HISTORIC ENV IRON ENTREQUIRE EXPER MISE, EYPERIENCE, AND JUDGMENT, FOLLOWING & TRANSPARENT PROCESS GUIDED BY PUBLIC POLICY. UNDERSTANDING, ASSESSMENT, AND PUBLIC ENG AGEMENT SHOULD BE THOROUGH ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY DECISIONS WHILE BEING RESOURCE-EFFCIENT. REQUIRED CONTROLSSHOULD BE PROPORTIONAL.

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