1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice

Edited By Steve Brown, Cari Goetcheus Copyright 2023
544 Pages 107 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

544 Pages 107 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

544 Pages 107 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept embedded in contemporary conservation. Heritage conservation has shifted from an historical focus on buildings, city centres, and archaeological sites to encompass progressively more diverse forms of heritage and increasingly larger geographic areas,... Read more

Introduction

Steve Brown and Cari Goetcheus

PART 1 CONCEPTS AND ORIGINS

1.1 From sites as materials to landscape as process

Steve Brown and Cari Goetcheus

1.2 From preservation to change management and transformation

Steve Brown

1.3 From culture and nature as separate to interconnected naturecultures

Steve Brown

1.4 From difficult dualisms to entangled complexity

Steve Brown

PART 2 DOCTRINE AND REGIONAL APPROACHES

2.1 Doctrinal texts and regional approaches

Cari Goetcheus

2.2 Cultural landscapes in the polar regions

Susan Barr and Michael Pearson

2.3 Russian cultural landscape policy and practice

Nargiz Aituganova

2.4 A Southern African cultural landscape approach: The Stellenbosch heritage inventory

Liana Jansen and Marike Franklin

2.5 The legal and legislative framework of the cultural landscapes of North Africa and Southwest Asia

Andrew Burton Anderson and Michal Wosiński

2.6 A critique on policies related to cultural landscapes in India

Nupur Prothi Khanna and Amit Bhattacharya

2.7 Cultural Landscapes in Northeast Asia

Roland Chih-Hung Lin, Akane Nakamura, and Chunyan Zhang

2.8 Central Asian cultural landscapes: Practices and policies

Ona Vileikis and Dmitriy Voyakin

2.9 Cultural Landscapes in Southeast Asia

Roland Chih-Hung Lin, Montira Horayangura Unakul, and Moe Chiba

2.10 Australian cultural landscape approaches

Caitlin Allen

2.11 Europe and its landscape convention

Graham Fairclough

2.12 Cultural landscapes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cesar Augusto Velandia Silva, Luis Ignacio Gómez Arriola, Isabel Rigol Savio, Diana Marcela Cifuentes Monsalve, and Virginia Lucrecia Laboranti

2.13 Cultural landscape policy and practice in Canada

John E. Zvonar

2.14 United States: Cultural landscape policy and practice

Cari Goetcheus

PART 3 FRAMING CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PRACTICE

3.1 Cultural landscapes: Toward an integrated management framework

Steve Brown

3.2 Identifying cultural landscapes: The Indigenous cultural landscape of Taputapuatea and the historic goldmining landscape of central Victoria

Anita Smith and Susan Lawrence

3.3 Documenting cultural landscapes

Liz Sargent

3.4 Assessing the heritage significance of landscapes: some reflections from Australia

Kristal Buckley

3.5 Social value: Identifying, documenting, assessing community connections

Chris Johnston

3.6 A legal framework for cultural landscape protection utilising the United States as an example

James K. Reap and Eve Errikson

3.7 Stewardship of cultural landscapes: management and governance

Jessica Brown and Nora Mitchell

3.8 Presenting cultural landscapes: Getting to the truth of ourselves?

Sharon Veale

PART 4 CASE STUDIES

4.1 Case studies: learning by doing

Steve Brown

4.2 Cultural landscapes in outer space

Alice Gorman

4.3 Cultural heritage, cultural landscape: Protecting the SOUL of Aotearoa, New Zealand 

Nicola Short and Diane Menzies

4.4 Mangyol village, Yap: A Micronesian social landscape 
Anita Smith

4.5 Culture, contingency and queerness in a reclaimed landscape 

Denis Byrne

4.6 Pastoral cultural landscapes, working the country for stock grazing: An Australian case study

Jane Lennon

4.7 Aquaculture: Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Australia 

Steve Brown, Anita Smith, and Denis Rose

4.8 Joseon iterati’s garden as a nature-friendly and place-oriented cultural landscape of Korea 

Jongsang Sung

4.9 Community participation in heritage conservation: Longan cultural landscape, Taiwan 

Chun-Hsi Wang

4.10 West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou: 'Oriental lake with cultural meanings’

Rouran Zhang

4.11 ‘The First Celestial Mountain in the World’: Wudang Mountains Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China

Feng Han and Chen Yang

4.12 Conceptualising spiritscapes: The Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai World Heritage site and the wider biocultural landscape

Bas Verschuuren

4.13 A landscape approach to reviving traditional water systems in a historic town in India

Nupur Prothi Khanna

4.14 Constructed emptiness: The Namib Desert as terra nullius 1786-2018

Jill Kinahan and John Kinahan

4.15 Urban landscape as ecosystem: Berlin

John Schofield

4.16 The Burren, Ireland: Land of paradox

Brendan Dunford

4.17 The Pico and Santa Maria vineyards: ‘heroic viticulture’ in The Azores

Isabel Albergaria and David Jacques

4.18 Registers of transience: Heritage and urban change 

Flavia Kiperman

4.19 Chinampa: A Mesoamerican–prehispanic cultivation system of Xochimilco, Mexico

Saúl Alcántara Onofre

 

PART 5

CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

5.1 Visualising heritage landscapes in future: aesthetics, embodiment, and meaning

Celmara Pocock

5.2 Cultural landscapes: Tackling the challenges of climate change

Robert Z. Melnick

5.3 Digital technologies in heritage practice

Stuart Jeffrey

5.4 Sustainability, landscape, and heritage futures

Ege Yildirim

5.5 Challenges, opportunities, and future directions: Conflict and resolution

Brian I. Daniels and Katharyn Hanson

5.6 Changing economies, changing politics: A perspective from the United Kingdom

Colin Price

Biography

Steve Brown is an archaeologist, a critical heritage scholar, and heritage practitioner. He is a senior research fellow at the University of Canberra, Australia, a specialist adviser with GML Heritage, and a past president of the ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes.

Cari Goetcheus is a landscape architect, heritage scholar, and practitioner. She is a professor in the graduate Historic Preservation program, College of Environment + Design (CED) at the University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America, Director of the UGA CED Cultural Landscape Lab, and a member of the ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes.

"Cultural landscapes are complex systems that have received much attention – both as heritage places and as the basis for the daily life of communities. However, understanding and managing their complexity, including space-time relations, remains a challenge. This outstanding publication provides an incredible resource that includes both theoretical and practical aspects explored from global, regional, and local perspectives. Theory, practice, a protection and management cycle, and case studies are presented by leading experts and practitioners in the field of cultural landscapes. Who can ask for more? The thematic sections offer a rich diversity of approaches and illustrate methods and instruments that contribute to the understanding and application of the subject. This book is an essential resource for those working to respond to global challenges such as sustainability, climate change, and human rights, as well as 'bridging the divide' between natural and cultural heritage. The book contributes to 'learning-by-doing' and people-centred approaches to understanding, caring for, and safeguarding those many special heritage landscapes loved by different communities and cultural groups."

Mónica Luengo Añón, ATP Arquitectura · Territorio · Paisaje, Madrid

"With the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice, Steve Brown and Cari Goetcheus provide scholars and practitioners an excellent tool with fundamental knowledge and methodological guidance based on collective reflection on theory, policy, and practice. Drawing on a rich diversity of case studies and contributions by renowned members of the international cultural landscapes community, this book synthesises almost thirty years of evolution in the application of this groundbreaking concept in the heritage field since its inclusion as a World Heritage category."

Maya Ishizawa, Heritage Researcher and Consultant, Germany

"The literature in the conservation field around cultural landscapes has been accelerating over the last decade, as have the jurisdictions adopting the concept for application. As a result, sites now being named ‘cultural landscapes’, from the local to the global, have proliferated. The arrival of this Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice is thus timely. It will fast become an invaluable resource for educators, practitioners, site managers, or citizens. The handbook, like cultural landscapes, approaches the subject with a multiplicity of voices and demonstrates the evolution of the concept over time. It also demonstrates why it has persisted despite its ambiguities and challenges in application. The essays come from experts from around the world and range from the applied to the theoretical. In doing so, this compilation covers an impressive spectrum of understanding, approaches and practice. As such this Routledge Handbook will become a classic in the conservation field."

Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, PhD, FCSLA, Dean and Professor, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona