Values and Heritage Conservation: Research Report, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles

Researches values and benefits of cultural heritage conservation undertaken by GCI through its Agora initiative as a means of articulating and furthering ideas that have emerged from the conservation field in recent years

Building a Foundation for Action: Anti-Racist Historic Preservation Resources

This document compiles resources to further anti-racism efforts in the field of historic preservation. The compilation was launched and managed as part of the Urban Heritage, Sustainability, and Social Inclusion Initiative at Columbia University, a collaboration of the GSAPP Historic Preservation Program, the Earth Institute - Center for Sustainable Urban Development, and The American Assembly, with support from the New York Community Trust. The need for deep, structural shifts in preservation policy to confront exclusion and the challenges of climate change was the impetus behind the establishment of the Initiative, and this resource list was envisioned as a critical tool in that endeavor

Preservation and The Fashion Industry: Comparative Analysis of Mutual Benefits in New York City and Shanghai

This thesis examines the utilization and investment in heritage sites for fashion shows, with a primary focus on locations in New York City and Shanghai. The fashion industry often commits significant resources in hosting fashion shows at prestigious heritage sites, which subsequently receive considerable economic benefits from such shows. In the thesis, the motivation of the government, heritage sites, and the fashion industry are explored. Additionally, the thesis delves into the property management practices by both the government and heritage sites for fashion shows. It also explores the process by which the fashion industry selects locations for fashion events and the production of such events. This analysis incorporates case illustrations from around the world. The more in depth case study section focuses on New York City and Shanghai, with New York City examples including the Lincoln Center and New York Public Library, while Shanghai examples feature Taiping Bridge Park and the 800 Show. Each case study assesses material damage and its prevention, economic value, the impact on public access, and social trade-offs associated with hosting fashion shows at these heritage sites. Furthermore, four emerging issues related to hosting fashion shows at heritage sites are identified: material damage, public access, heritage narrative, and the cultural connection between fashion shows and heritage sites. Heritage sites have become popular fashion show venues, and fashion shows are increasingly held in places where protections may not be anticipating such uses, and these sites might not be adequately prepared compared to larger venues. This research can provide insights for the future use of heritage sites for fashion shows, empowering heritage sites to maximize mutual benefits while minimizing negative impacts

Energy and Historic Buildings: Toward evidence-based policy reform

This research informs the intersection of climate and heritage policy development by examining the history of US energy policy as it relates to historic buildings, emerging policy tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the implications of a changing legislative landscape on historic buildings through the case of New York City. This study employs a multi-method approach, including a review of US energy codes; discourse analysis of government records, energy studies, and reports related to historic buildings and energy; select research into energy-related heritage policy at the municipal level; and geospatial and statistical methods to analyze policy implications in the case study of New York City. Historic buildings have long been afforded exemptions from energy code compliance in the US, and these waivers are widespread. Contemporary operating energy and greenhouse gas data, as well as energy justice findings about who these waivers privilege, challenge these exemptions and signal a need for significant policy reform in light of climate change. This study questions longstanding rhetoric about historic buildings being inherently green and supports the need for more evidence-based research to undergird heritage policy reform that is equitable and climate-responsive

A systems approach to historic preservation in an era of sustainability planning

The public outcry over large scale urban renewal projects of the mid-20th century served a catalytic role in the codification of the modern historic preservation movement in the United States. While theories of heritage and its protection underpinned policy development, the discourse surrounding the loss of historic fabric and the fracturing of communities within American cities played a critical role in the institutionalization of the field. It effectively pitted preservation as a counter movement against the public and private interests seeking social progress through rational planning paradigms. The modern preservation infrastructure – including institutions, legislation, and policies – is now half a century old, but the conceptual dynamics that isolated preservation from other land use decision-making at the juncture of its institutionalization persist. The disjuncture between preservation and broader land use and building policies presents new challenges in light of contemporary sustainability concerns. Climate change -- and associated energy and resource consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, waste generation, and habitat and landscape destruction -- have made apparent, if not dire, the need to revolutionize the way we live in the industrialized world. Preservation, as an integral component of the larger system of the built environment, is under increasing pressure to align its own aims and functions with those of the larger system and to share common goals of environmental, economic, and social sustainability. This research uses discourse analysis to deconstruct historical and existing relationships among the theories, policies, and practices of preservation, planning, and sustainability. Using the lens of systems thinking, a basic framework is constructed to model behavior and dynamic relationships, and to suggest changes for forging shared aims and common ground. Sustainability provides an accessible framework through which to view the built environment as a socio-ecological system (with economic inherent in the “socio”) and navigate the relationships and processes within it to which preservation contributes. Understanding those dynamics can help to better contextualize the enterprise of preservation and to elucidate how the policies and institutions of the field can be made more responsive to the needs of society.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Erica Christine Avram

Values in Heritage Management: Emerging Approaches and Research Directions

Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field