Managing Built Heritage: The Role of Cultural Significance

by Derek Worthing

This book examines management of the built cultural heritage through the use of the concept of cultural significance. It considers how and why cultural significance is assessed and how it can be used as an effective focus and driver for management strategies and processes.Effective management of the built cultural heritage requires a clear understanding of what makes a place significant (and how that significance might be vulnerable) but the book also emphasises that this understanding of cultural significance must inform all activities in order to ensure that what is important about the place is protected and enhanced.The book was written in the midst of much fundamental rethinking, both nationally and internationally, on approaches to the conservation of our built cultural heritage. Managing Built the role of cultural significance is analytical and reflective but also draws on real life examples to illustrate particular issues, looking at current

228 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2007