Urban COnservation lecture

1. Lecture 2
Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric
Urban Conservation - ARCH 462

2. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462

3. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Heritage
Natural
Environment
Built
Environment
Artifacts
Saudi village of Rijal Alma, Asir
Al-Ula Oasis , KSA

4. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Heritage Sites
Compact
urban sites
Semi–detached
urban sites
Detached
urban sites
Heritage site is an official location where pieces of history have been preserved
due to their cultural heritage value

5. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Urban heritage is defined as the layers of historical, physical remains that constitute contemporary urban areas,
that is, the built heritage with architectural and historical value or the “monuments” of a city (churches and other
religious buildings, castles, city walls, palaces, and institutional buildings).
Reference: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-0465-2_1137
Urban
Heritage
City District
Group of
buildings
Single
Building

9. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Urban heritage is both tangible and intangible, that is, including people that live in and are connected with
urban areas and places, customs, and beliefs.
Reference: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-0465-2_1137

10. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Time Trip
The ancient city of Mada’in Saleh is Saudi Arabia’s
first UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Umayyad Mosque - AleppoTaj- Mahal, India

11. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
(a) Sense of place model (Canter, 1977); (b) Sense of place model (Panter, 1977).

12. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462

13. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Cultural and
Social Values
Historical
Social
Spiritual
Aesthetical
Authenticity
Symbolic
Economic

14. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Symbolic
(Meaning)
Moses Mountain

15. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
This value is the major
reason underlying its
preservation and the basis
for its economic benefits.

16. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Al-ʿUla, ksa
Historical
(roots)

17. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Social
India
Egypt
Greece

18. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Spiritual

19. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Aesthetical
The Syrian House,
Damascus

20. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Authenticity
Sphinx

21. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Economic
Recourses
Natural
Recourses
Human
Recourses
Financial
Recourses
Civilizing
Recourses
Job
Opportunities
Foreign
Currency
Invaluable
Asset
Attract
Investors
Economic Value
Unique
and Rare
In
Demand
Has
Benefit
Greater
Value
Heritage
Value
Use Value
Direct Use
Value
Indirect
Use Value
Non-use
Value
Option
Use Value
Existence
Value

22. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Heritage Value Problematic:
1. Heritage as a exhaustible recourse- unawareness and conservation feasibility
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

23. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Heritage Value Problematic:
2. Market Mechanism
• Heritage as a public good
• Externalities
• Business and Taxes
• Tourists and crowding
• Residents and benefits
Old Jeddah

24. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Heritage Value Problematic:
3. Residents Priorities and conservation
• Public Participation and different
priorities
Old Cairo- decision making

25. Heritage, Value, and Urban Fabric Urban Conservation - ARCH 462
Heritage Value Problematic:
4. Conflicts of Values
• Financial revenue from
development -measurable
• Cultural meaning -non measurable
• Historical value -non measurable