84 research outputs found
A comparative review of policy for the protection of the architectural heritage of Europe
This paper investigates the use of aesthetic value as a criterion by which the significance of heritage places is assessed. It is argued that current heritage management practice has not engaged with the extensive discourse relating to aesthetics, and therefore confines aesthetics to a particular class and culture, and an inert view of only one of our sensory experiences. Historical records relating to the Great Barrier Reef are used to show how aesthetic appreciation of the area has changed over time.The data suggest that the failure to recognise an aesthetic that is primarily non-visual can lead to changes in landscape and loss of associated value. It also suggests that aesthetic values change rapidly and are influenced by social and technological factors
A review of fiscal measures to benefit heritage conservation
This research paper reports an international review of the use of fiscal incentives (such as property tax incentives, income tax deductions and VAT) for heritage conservation. The research examines countries across Europe and North America. The paper has been presented at RICS headquarters
Real estate tax credits and other incentives for investing in historic property in the United States
This article reviews different incentives provided in the USA and makes comparisons to incentives offered in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Together with outputs 1& 2, this article was cited in House of Commons: ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee, Eleventh Report of Session 2003-4 (Volume I) into âThe Role of Historic buildings in Urban Regenerationâ (HC 47-I, EV29 published on 29 July 2004)
The Grainger Town project : sustaining the historic city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Consultation, authorisation and enforcement in England : integration of heritage and planning and comparisons with Ireland
What matters to older people with assisted living needs? A phenomenological analysis of the use and non-use of telehealth and telecare
Telehealth and telecare research has been dominated by efficacy trials. The field lacks a sophisticated theorisation of [a] what matters to older people with assisted living needs; [b] how illness affects people's capacity to use technologies; and [c] the materiality of assistive technologies. We sought to develop a phenomenologically and socio-materially informed theoretical model of assistive technology use. Forty people aged 60â98 (recruited via NHS, social care and third sector) were visited at home several times in 2011â13. Using ethnographic methods, we built a detailed picture of participants' lives, illness experiences and use (or non-use) of technologies. Data were analysed phenomenologically, drawing on the work of Heidegger, and contextualised using a structuration approach with reference to Bourdieu's notions of habitus and field. We found that participants' needs were diverse and unique. Each had multiple, mutually reinforcing impairments (e.g. tremor and visual loss and stiff hands) that were steadily worsening, culturally framed and bound up with the prospect of decline and death. They managed these conditions subjectively and experientially, appropriating or adapting technologies so as to enhance their capacity to sense and act on their world. Installed assistive technologies met few participants' needs; some devices had been abandoned and a few deliberately disabled. Successful technology arrangements were often characterised by âbricolageâ (pragmatic customisation, combining new with legacy devices) by the participant or someone who knew and cared about them. With few exceptions, the current generation of so-called âassisted living technologiesâ does not assist people to live with illness. To overcome this irony, technology providers need to move beyond the goal of representing technology users informationally (e.g. as biometric data) to providing flexible components from which individuals and their carers can âthink with thingsâ to improve the situated, lived experience of multi-morbidity. A radical revision of assistive technology design policy may be needed
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