Cultural Landscapes of South Asia (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
Redaktion: Silva, Kapila; Sinha, Amita

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317365938
• Artikelnr.: 46883569

Autorenporträt

Kapila D. Silva is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Kansas, USA. Amita Sinha is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Imagining the Future of Conservation in South Asia (Rahul Mehrotra)
Introduction (Amita Sinha)
Part I: Reimagining South Asian Cultural Landscapes
1. Conservation of Cultural Landscapes in Bhutan (Françoise Pommaret)
2. Blurring Boundaries and Moving Beyond the Tangible/Intangible and the Natural/Cultural Classifications of Heritage: Cases from Nepal (Neel Kamal Chapagain)
3. Cultures of the Landscape: A Paradigm of Enriching Diversity Un-recognized in the World Vision of Heritage in Pakistan (Anila Naeem)
Part II: South Asian Historic Urban Landscapes
4. The South Asian Shahar: Reimagining Shahariyat as Urban heritage (Jyoti Pandey Sharma)
5. The Historic Urban Landscape of Old Dhaka
Bangladesh (Farhana Ferdous)
6. 'All the world coming and going': the past and future of the Grand Trunk Road in Punjab
India (Manish Chalana)
7. The Modernist Historic Urban Landscape of Islamabad
Pakistan (Farhan Karim)
Part III: The Intangible Heritage in Cultural Landscapes
8. The Landscape Theatre of Sigiriya
Sri Lanka: Interaction of the Regal
Natural and Agricultural Landscapes (Nilan Cooray)
9. The symbolic authenticity of Kandy
Sri Lanka (Kapila D. Silva)
10. The Cultural Landscape of Pohela Boishakh Festival and the Making of a National Identity in Bangladesh (Nubras Samayeen and Sharif Shams Imon)
11. Tourism
Liquid Modernity and Bhutanese Traditional Festivals (Wantanee Suntikul)
Part IV: Managing Cultural Landscapes
12. Bhaktapur
Nepal: Heritage Values and Conservation Practices (Kapila D. Silva)
13. Getting the City Back to its People: Conservation and Management of Historic Ahmedabad
India (Debashish Nayak)
14. The Public Realm of Heritage Sites in India: Sustainable Approaches Towards Planning and Management (Amita Sinha)
15. Grounded Speculations on Cultural Landscape Conservation (Amita Sinha)
Epilogue: Prospects for Conserving South Asian Cultural Landscapes (Kapila D. Silva)