Cultural heritage preservation makes necessary to produce an initial technical documentation to be able to establish the plans which allow to develop suitable approaches for protecting. Recent developments in the scientific methods of documentation influenced the conservation approaches to historic areas. In the past, conservation efforts focused on absolute preservation which meant preventing ...

Residential development within heritage conservation areas is regulated by Development Control Plans (DCP) that provide guidelines about the shape and form that new houses, alterations and additions should take (DIPNR 2004). By understanding that the visual amenity of streets within a city plays an important role in creating a sense of place and community for its citizens (Lynch 1960) they atte...

Rahul Mehrotra is an architect , urban designer and principal with Rahu/ Mehrotra Associates, Bombay,/ndia. He has a Master 's degree in Urban Design from Harvard University. He is Executive Director of the Urban Design Research Institute, and on the Board of Governors of the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority's Heritage Society. Recent books include, Bombay-The Cities Within, a...

The conservation of World Heritage is critical to the cultural and social sustainability of regions and nations. Risk monitoring and preventive diagnosis of threats to heritage sites in any given ecosystem are a complex and challenging task. Taking advantage of the performance of Earth Observation technologies, we measured the impacts of hitherto imperceptible and poorly understood factors of g...

Heritage conservation is an important recurring research theme on agricultural heritage systems. Improving the income of farmers from agriculture is regarded as an effective conservation approach. This study examined how the improved rice-fish-duck coculture (IRFDC) promotes the protection of the Honghe Hani Rice Terraced System (HHRTS) by keeping farmers farming in their hometowns. A semi-stru...

The rich built heritage of the Himalayas has great but currently under-exploited tourism potential. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in the Tibetan kingdom of Lc (Upper Mustang) with its intact network of medieval inns. Despite local pressure for a distinctive heritage tourism product based around upgraded inns, conventional tent-based trekking tourism still predominates. Alternatives inc...

Abstract This article evaluates the strategy approved in 2000 for managing geological heritage of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park (PNZVG). The conservation geodiversity and provides a foundation other types heritage, example, fields forestry, agriculture, industry, urban development. human imprint on this natural is significant, most land it contains privately owned commercially producti...

Traditionally, 3D acquisition technologies have been used to record heritage artefacts and to support specific tasks such as conservation or provenance verification. These exercises are usually a one-off as the technology and resources required are cost intensive. However, there is a recent impetus on the creation of 3D collections to document heritage artefacts which are semantically enriched ...