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Conservation:
Preservation:
Restoration:
Architectural Conservation:
Urban Conservation:
Listed Building:
Conservation Area:
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CONSERVATION
• An occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or
injury or other change.
• The protection and careful management of the environment
and of natural resources.
• The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of
a thing) in a safe or entire state.
• Architectural conservation: The protection, preservation and
management of buildings and sites to save them and make
them useful.
• Architectural conservation: The wise management of
architectural resources in a way to maintain, restore, enhance
and protect their quality and quantity for sustained benefit.
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PRESERVATION
• The activity of protecting something from loss or
danger.
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UNESCO Main Institutions
• UNESCO World Heritage Committee : The UNESCO World Heritage Committee
decides whether sites will be registered on the World Heritage List. It meets once a year and holds
strictly to the criteria stipulated in the Convention. The Committee includes experts from 21 of the
countries who have signed the convention, and its members are elected by these signing members.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the World Conservation Union
(previously IUCN) support the Committee.
• IUCN - the World Conservation Union : Supports the World Heritage Committee in
the selection of natural treasures to be included on the World Heritage List.
• Cultural Identity ??
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3- CULTURAL ASPECTS (cont.)
• The importance of keeping our built heritage is as
a tool to keep our cultural identity .
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4- SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
• Social problems affecting historic buildings:
– Rapid urban growth.
– Current neglect of heritage.
– Lack of local participation.
– Loss of traditional skills.
– Depopulation of historic areas.
• Piero Gazzola “ recent studies has shown
that if people leave it is largely because
planners and authorities have not taken
needed measures “ .
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4- SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
• The profitability of conservation :
– Non monetary benefits.
– Cost benefit analysis.
– Adaptive reuse of old buildings especially for
commercial uses.
- Funding methods :
- Public funds,
- Local authorities funds,
- Grant making trusts ,
- Voluntary organizations,
- Owners and occupiers,
- Tourist boards,
- International aid,
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- …etc.