1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice

Edited By Steve Brown, Cari Goetcheus Copyright 2023
    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, embracing both rural and urban landscapes. While the origin of the idea of cultural landscapes can be traced to the late-19th century Euro-American scholarship, it came to global attention after 1992 following its adoption as a category of ‘site’ by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Today, cultural landscape practice has become increasingly complex given the expansion of the values and meanings of heritage, the influence of environmental challenges such as human induced climate change, technological advancements, and the need to better understand and interpret human connections to place and landscapes.

    The aim of this handbook is to strike a balance between theory and practice, which we see as inseparable, while also seeking to achieve a geographical spread, disciplinary diversity and perspectives, and a mix of authors from academic, practitioner, management, and community backgrounds.

    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