A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe

Elgar Research Agendas provide a forward-thinking exploration of the intersection of heritage planning and societal challenges,including climate change,identity,and development. They highlight the transformative potential of heritage planning,conservation,and adaptive reuse and call for institutional change. The agenda is a valuable resource for academics,students,policy makers,and professionals in the fields of urban and human geography,heritage studies,planning,urban design,and architecture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 21 March 2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Elgar Research Agendas serve as comprehensive overviews of the future of research in a particular field. They provide esteemed scholars with the opportunity to delve into their subjects in thought-provoking and innovative ways, charting potential future directions for exploration. While these agendas are grounded in current realities, they also exhibit a visionary outlook, envisioning the possibilities that lie ahead.

In this insightful Research Agenda, the relationship between heritage planning and the pressing societal challenges of climate change, identity, and development is explored in depth. By mapping out future avenues for the field, it suggests novel approaches to executing, studying, and reflecting on heritage planning.

Expert international contributors raise critical questions that challenge existing practices and research, urging for structural and institutional change. They emphasize the transformative potential of heritage planning, conservation, and adaptive reuse, while also highlighting the responsibilities that come with such potential.

Chapters within this Research Agenda delve into various central topics, including industrial heritage and conservation planning, digital reconstruction methods and remote sensing technologies, rural tourism, participation and heritage-led regeneration, as well as issues surrounding contestation and politicization, and the conceptualizations of heritage planning.

Spanning the domains of theoretical and empirical insights, from academic perspectives to professional challenges, this Research Agenda is an invaluable resource for academics and students in urban and human geography, heritage studies, planning, urban design, and architecture. Its examination of specific heritage projects will also be of great value to policy makers and professionals working in the heritage planning field.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035315482