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Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories

2018
Book Chapters

Abstract

The chapter scrutinizes public reactions to two successive projects (2010 and 2012) that seek to transform the urban fabric of Gulou neighbourhood in Beijing. By discussing collective memory (through lived and embodied experience of heritage and community’s attachments to the place), it provides insights into the complex and evolving relationship between official, professional and local narratives and memories of its inhabitants. The study analyses the role and power of different actors involved in the urban redevelopment and the heritage management. Its conclusion sheds light on local heritage categories and on the asymmetry between relocation and preservation issues.

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2018
Book Chapters

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/c35f6034-0935-4fab-ae71-b4e7c1001dca

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Cultural heritage

Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by society. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, archive materials, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

Cultural heritage management

Cultural heritage management (CHM) is the vocation and practice of managing cultural heritage. It is a branch of cultural resources management (CRM), although it also draws on the practices of cultural conservation, restoration, museology, archaeology, history and architecture. While the term cultural heritage is generally used in Europe, in the US the term cultural resources is in more general use specifically referring to cultural heritage resources.

Cultural resource management

In the broadest sense, cultural resource management (CRM) is the vocation and practice of managing heritage assets, and other cultural resources such as contemporary art. It incorporates Cultural Heritage Management which is concerned with traditional and historic culture. It also delves into the material culture of archaeology. Cultural resource management encompasses current culture, including progressive and innovative culture, such as urban culture, rather than simply preserving and presenting traditional forms of culture.

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