The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and World Monuments Fund (WMF) are collaboratively developing for the international heritage field an open source, web-based GIS purpose-built for inventorying and managing immovable cultural heritage. GCI-WMF will release an “alpha” version of the Arches system as an open source project in December 2012, and a more advanced “beta” version in spring 2013. ...

Over the last few decades, some newly developed areas in the city of Isfahan have had serious problems in providing such urban design qualities as legibility, and this has led to various problems for the citizens like difficulty in way-finding, orientation or addressing. In order to solve this problem and enrich the legibility of newly developed areas, planners and designers should utilize appr...

Cities can make a difference resolving the above three critical issues. Urban policies are essential in order to counteract the negative effects of climate change. These policies include land use, transportation, waste management, construction methods, and many other aspects of the current environmental challenge. Similarly, overcoming of poverty, unemployment, and social exclusion, along with ...

Cultural heritage preservation is not only about arts, memory, values, and the subtle balance between destruction and restoration. In this modern interand multidisciplinary field, research is a common part of actual conservation projects. Moreover, advanced technologies, materials and investigation techniques are being developed specifically for conservation purposes. This paper presents one of...

The best way to reduce the degradation of metallic cultural heritage is through preventive conservation measures but, in many cases, it is not possible to obtain adequate environmental conditions, and it is necessary to apply coatings to the artefacts in order to protect them against corrosion. There is a continuous search in the metal conservation community for new and improved coatings that p...

ENCoRE’ was founded in 1998 to promote research and education in the field of cultural heritage and to improve and encourage cooperation among academic programmes and institutions for the conservation-restoration of cultural heritage. The need for clarification of university level programmes and recognised equivalents in conservation-restoration education has been achieved in the form of the EN...

Heritage objects can represent personal and collective values and affect self-perceptions and ideas about others. For these reasons their management is highly important, especially regarding who exercises ownership through access and control of interpretation. Conservation is a particularly significant process because it necessitates the determination of object values and often involves direct ...

Urban heritage is a category of cultural heritage. Historic centers are protected by legal framework that safeguards the values object declaration. The study urban protection policy in Colombia has been limited classical perspective. In contrast, this research performs case on conservation legislation and historical declared as Assets Cultural Interest (BIC, Spanish) between 1954 2019 from inst...

1. The conservation of insects is not a priority for most urban dwellers, yet can be accomplished in urban settings by the careful design of urban nature. Our goal is to foster cross-talk between practitioners of insect conservation biology who develop the knowledge base and professional design practitioners who are poised to apply this knowledge in designs and management plans for urban green ...

today, we see that despite the plans and decisions made about the historical fabric, the people are very faintly seen and conservation the historic fabric of urban is one of the main concerns management urban in the absence of efficient management and lack of attention to the needs of local people, the historical fabric urban is destroyed. in this article are examined ways other than physical m...