The Future of Historic Cities: Urban Heritage in Asia: Documentation, Protection and Conservation
Contents: Preface. 1. Asia Perspective on Urban Heritage. Humanising the City: Trends in Asia Pacific/Minja Yang. 2. Culture and Development in New Urban Agenda: Learning from Hoi An and Amravati/Amareswar Galla. 3. Public Participation and Sustainable Urban Conservation/Sharif Shams Imon. 4. Damage and Continuity: Kathmandu Valley/Kai Weise. 5. Water Based Cultural Landscapes: Ban Kong and Ban Pakklong, Thailand/Witiya Pittungnapoo. 6. Revitalisation and Community Engagement: Otsu, Japan/Dowon Kim. 7. Management Systems for World Heritage: Pyu Ancient Cities, Myanmar/Su Su and Win Kyaing. 8. The India Perspective: National Scenario for Urban Heritage. Heritage Cities of India: Facts, figures and issues/Snigdha Bisht and Moe Chiba. 9. Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana: An overview/Ryan Christopher Sequeira. 10. Leveraging National Schemes to Support a Heritage Agenda/Mukta Naik and Kimberly M Noronha. 11. Cities in Focus. Streamlining Urban Initiatives: Ajmer/Uditi Agarwal. 12. Rejuvenating the Soul of Historic Cities: Amritsar and Puri/Gurmeet S Rai and Priyanka Sing. 13. Waiting for a Turnaround: Dwarka/Manvita Baradi and Anurag Anthony. 14. From Political to Cultural Capital: Redefining the role of old Bhubaneswar/Sanghamitra Basu. 15. Local Approaches. Making Heritage Relevant to the Local Community: Chandernagore and Chinsurah/Aishwarya Tipnis. 16. Modern Urban Heritage and Public Engagement: The case of Thiruvananthapuram/Thomas Oommen. 17. Common Property Resource: Traditional water system of Delhi/Suruchi Shah. 18. Traditional Knowledge and Systems: Pilgrimage town of Jejuri/Vaishali Davalbhakta-Latkar and Abhijit Natu. 19. Documenting Urban Heritage. Visual Documentation as a Tool for Conservation, Part II: Dalhousie Square and surroundings, Kolkata/Himadri Guha, Biswajit Thakur and Kaninika Dey Sarkar. 20. Muthas of Tuljapur: Sustainable traditional infrastructure/Tejashree Lakras and Pallavi Dalal. 21. Documenting Kishangarh/Yash Pratap Singh Shekhawat.
Urban heritage of Asia and India is a very significant segment that has largely remained unaddressed for a long time. Recent recognition of Asian and Indian cities as living heritage in UN policies is a welcome change. This volume provides an overview of UN approach to Asia's urban heritage along with a wide perspective of national and regional approaches to urban conservation in a range of Asian countries. More specifically, it evaluates the recent focus on culture and development in Indian cities through national level schemes. The volume also outlines that while safeguarding of urban heritage as part of larger international and national agendas is critical; one also needs to look at the local approaches at ground level that finally determine the success of urban regeneration of historic areas.
The contributors to this edited volume include a wide range of international and national experts specialising in heritage conservation and urban renewal in Asia, along with researchers focusing on historic cities. It is a useful reference for all practitioners and academicians working in the field of urban regeneration in Asia.
