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Author Aygen, Zeynep

Title International heritage and historic building conservation : saving the world's past / Zeynep Aygen
Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 321 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in heritage ; 3
Routledge studies in heritage ; 3.
Contents Introduction : global boundaries between preservation and conservation -- Periphery, margins and self -- Defence, survival or neglect : the role of politics -- The non-European world and the bequest of modernity -- Postmodernity elsewhere -- Conservation funding in another world -- Public participation -- Epilogue: saving the world's past
Summary The majority of books in English on historic building conservation and heritage preservation training are often restricted to Western architecture and its origins. Consequently, the history of building conservation, the study of contemporary paradigms and case studies in most universities and within wider interest circles, predominantly in the UK, Europe, and USA focus mainly on Europe and sometimes the USA, although the latter is often excluded from European publications. With an increasingly multicultural student body in Euro-American universities and with a rising global interest in heri
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-314) and index
Notes English
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration.
Historic preservation -- Social aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration
Historic preservation -- Social aspects
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Baudenkmal
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Kulturarv.
Arkitektur.
Afrika
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