In recent decades,the debate concerning the conservation of built heritage has begun to acknowledge the benefts of involving local communities in this process.Despite this recognition,however,the role played by local ...In recent decades,the debate concerning the conservation of built heritage has begun to acknowledge the benefts of involving local communities in this process.Despite this recognition,however,the role played by local communities in heritage afairs in practice remains marginal,and the idea of‘heritage communities'proposed by the Faro Convention has not yet become a reality.An efective change in this paradigm that focuses on identifying local communities as focal entities in the process of the conservation of built heritage must involve a recognition of their heritage resources and,thus,the availability of appropriate value bases that can help local communities recognise the social value of built heritage assets.Indeed,this value dimension continues to be viewed as less notable than other values that have been recognised as‘essential'with respect to conservation.In light of these premises,this paper aims to overcome existing diferences and conficts in the discourse concerning heritage social value by providing a comprehensive framework of value types that can guide eforts to assess the social value of built heritage.In this sense,a multidisciplinary review and investigation of diferent theoretical domains that have addressed the topic of social value are proposed.Such an investigation can provide a basic reference for eforts to overcome this gap and explore the infuences,connections,and contradictions that occur among diferent disciplines,thus providing a comprehensive theoretical framework in this context.Finally,the paper discusses various opportunities,limitations,and future challenges pertaining to eforts to identify the social value of built heritage as the core of decision processes concerning conservation.展开更多
文摘In recent decades,the debate concerning the conservation of built heritage has begun to acknowledge the benefts of involving local communities in this process.Despite this recognition,however,the role played by local communities in heritage afairs in practice remains marginal,and the idea of‘heritage communities'proposed by the Faro Convention has not yet become a reality.An efective change in this paradigm that focuses on identifying local communities as focal entities in the process of the conservation of built heritage must involve a recognition of their heritage resources and,thus,the availability of appropriate value bases that can help local communities recognise the social value of built heritage assets.Indeed,this value dimension continues to be viewed as less notable than other values that have been recognised as‘essential'with respect to conservation.In light of these premises,this paper aims to overcome existing diferences and conficts in the discourse concerning heritage social value by providing a comprehensive framework of value types that can guide eforts to assess the social value of built heritage.In this sense,a multidisciplinary review and investigation of diferent theoretical domains that have addressed the topic of social value are proposed.Such an investigation can provide a basic reference for eforts to overcome this gap and explore the infuences,connections,and contradictions that occur among diferent disciplines,thus providing a comprehensive theoretical framework in this context.Finally,the paper discusses various opportunities,limitations,and future challenges pertaining to eforts to identify the social value of built heritage as the core of decision processes concerning conservation.
