Looking After Heritage Places,9780522845549

Looking After Heritage Places

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Pub. Date: 2013-04-01
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Table of Contents

Illustrations
xi(2)
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Looking After the Past: An Introduction to the Management of Heritage Places
1(33)
What this book is about
1(3)
What are heritage places?
4(3)
What is management?
7(4)
Why do we conserve heritage places?
11(5)
The nature of significance
16(17)
Community heritage values
17(1)
Value to minority groups
18(2)
Scientific or research value
20(1)
Significance and society
21(1)
The range of heritage places in Australia
22(11)
Heritage and its inheritors
33(1)
2 The Legislative and Administrative Framework
34(48)
Effective legislation
35(1)
Legislation and politics
36(1)
Legislation and management
37(1)
Types of legislation
37(2)
1 Aboriginal and historic sites protection Acts
37(1)
2 Notification Acts
38(1)
3 Land or site management Acts
38(1)
4 Planning legislation
39(1)
International conventions and recommendations
39(5)
National legislation
44(12)
The implications of listing
48(2)
Commonwealth protection for Aboriginal places
50(5)
Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976
55(1)
State and Territory legislation
56(20)
Australian Capital Territory
56(1)
New South Wales
57(4)
Northern Territory
61(2)
Queensland
63(2)
South Australia
65(2)
Tasmania
67(2)
Victoria
69(4)
Western Australia
73(3)
Other relevant legislation
76(2)
Using legal measures for active conservation
78(2)
The administrative framework
80(1)
How to get a place added to a heritage register
80(2)
3 Documenting the Resource: Finding and Recording Aboriginal and Historic Places
82(44)
Documentation and management
86(2)
Aims and strategies
88(2)
Gathering background information
90(6)
Registers
90(2)
Local histories
92(2)
Local contacts
94(2)
Refining aims of the inventory
96(1)
A place register
96(1)
Choosing a survey method
97(6)
The heritage place and its context
103(3)
Choices for action
106(1)
Commissioning a survey
106(1)
Planning an in-house inventory
107(1)
Practical advice for survey, place recording and documentation
108(18)
Survey
108(1)
Place recording and surveying
109(1)
Simple surveying principles and methods
110(4)
Other aspects of place recording
114(2)
Location of the place
116(1)
Description of the place
117(1)
What not to do at a heritage place
118(1)
Some operational difficulties
118(8)
4 Assessing the Value of Heritage Places
126(61)
Why is it necessary to assess significance?
127(5)
Levels of significance assessment
132(1)
Elements of significance
133(38)
Aesthetic significance
134(4)
Architectural value
138(1)
Historic value
139(8)
Scientific value
147(6)
Social value
153(15)
The nature of cultural significance
168(3)
Carrying out significance assessment
171(11)
Research and collection of information
172(2)
The site in its context
174(1)
Analysing and synthesizing the evidence
175(3)
The role of the manager
178(4)
Conclusion
182(5)
5 Planning for Heritage Place Management
187(33)
Introduction
187(11)
Why management plans?
187(3)
Levels of management
190(3)
Levels of planning
193(5)
The management plan
198(13)
1 Statement of legal responsibility, philosophy and general policy
198(1)
2 Description of the heritage place, its assessment and significance
199(1)
3 Statement of other values
200(2)
4 Identification of other requirements, opportunities and constraints
202(7)
5 Formulation of a conservation or management policy
209(1)
6 Management strategy or implementation plan
210(1)
Headings for management practices
211(2)
Provision for review
213(1)
The manager and the plan
213(7)
6 Implementing Heritage Place Management: Conservation Processes and Practices
220(57)
Using legal protection for active conservation
220(2)
Physical conservation: some principles and issues
222(8)
Conservation as destruction
222(1)
Form and fabric
223(2)
Conservation principles and the Burra Charter
225(5)
Conservation processes
230(9)
Preservation
233(2)
Restoration
235(1)
Reconstruction
236(2)
Adaptation
238(1)
Conservation practices
239(25)
Knowing what you have
239(1)
Involvement of experts
240(1)
Building conservation
241(4)
Conservation of works other than buildings
245(1)
Site conservation
246(18)
Environmental impact procedures and salvage recording
264(10)
Appraising an environmental impact statement for heritage places
268(2)
The quality of the survey and statement
270(2)
Mitigation procedures
272(2)
Artefact curation
274(3)
7 Visitor Management and Interpretation
277(30)
Introduction
277(2)
Place selection
279(2)
Researching visitor behaviour
281(3)
Findings
282(2)
On-site management
284(2)
Marketing heritage places
286(1)
Education and visitor management
287(1)
The purposes of interpretation
288(1)
Interpretation in Australia
289(2)
Ideology and interpretation
291(2)
Interpreting the place in context
293(1)
Interpreting the market
294(1)
Interpretation and cultural significance
295(1)
Aboriginal place interpretation
296(1)
Interpretive techniques
297(3)
Use of consultants
300(1)
Summary advice
300(1)
Planning for interpretation and visitor management
301(2)
Some techniques for visitor management and heritage place interpretation
303(4)
Physical restrictions/protective measures
303(1)
Use management
304(1)
Information, interpretation, motivation, direction
305(2)
8 Some Current Issues and Future Concerns
307(13)
Heritage practitioners and heritage in the community
308(3)
Academics and heritage
311(1)
Immigrant, ethnic, Aboriginal, woman-the minority heritage
312(2)
Heritage-who benefits, who pays
314(1)
Natural and cultural heritage conservation
315(2)
Conservation of urban districts
317(1)
Conservation in the late twentieth century
317(3)
Appendix 1 The Burra Charter 320(4)
Appendix 2 Code of Ethics of the Australian Archaeological Association 324(2)
Appendix 3 Thematic List 326(7)
Appendix 4 Heritage Study Model Brief 333(8)
Appendix 5 Useful Contacts 341(5)
Notes 346(12)
Bibliography 358(17)
Index 375

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