Stakeholder Perspectives on the Preservation and Development of Lower Grade Historic Buildings
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Stakeholder Perspectives on the Preservation and Development of Lower Grade Historic Buildings Jinquan Zhang 1,2
& Guoen
Wang 1 & Yasha Wang 3 & Jianrong Zhang 4
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract Decades of strong economic growth and urbanization have changed many historic villages. With recent rural construction projects, lower grade historic buildings in China villages are faced with increasing challenges, including being rebuilt or demolished in the name of improvement. The stakeholder is an interesting point of entry for the discussion of historic buildings and has been the subject of little research thus far. Through field surveys of historic buildings in three selected villages and qualitative interviews with stakeholders, this research analyzes the reasons behind different attitudes towards lower grade rural historic buildings, provides some suggestions for future preservation and development. Keywords Stakeholder . Lower grade historic buildings . Preservation . Development .
China
Introduction Architectural heritage protection and utilisation have been global topics of concern since the Venice Charter in 1964 and the scope has expanded from historic monuments to vernacular buildings according to the“chapter on the built vernacular heritage” ratified by the ICOMOS 12th general assembly in 1999. Most vernacular buildings are lower grade historic buildings, or not officially recognised by the authorities as significant (Lee 2016:729–747), and have been neglected in architectural history
* Jinquan Zhang [email protected]
1
School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
2
Pan Tianshou Arts and Design Academy, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
3
Faculty of Design and Architecture, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo 315100, China
4
College of City Construction, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
(Upton 1983:262–279). Many of them are scattered or clustered in villages, and have collapsed, become obsolete, or been misused. Their values may not have been fully utilized for a variety of reasons (Othman and Elsaay 2018:1704–1718; Salama 2018:02–10; Tavares et al. 2018:49–56), such as transformations to meet the demands of modern life, natural and man-made disasters, a lack of funds for and weak awareness of protection, and traditional economic development which that neglects rural diversity and versatility (Jenkins 2000:301–314; Mitchell et al. 1997:853–886). Different countries have different definitions of historic buildings (Turner and Kennell 2018). For example, in China several terminologies describe various perspectives on this issue, such as cultural relics protection units, historic buildings, listed buildings for conservation, candidacy building listings, and so on. The differences between these terms are concerned with various management regulations. In order to avoid confusion, lower grade historic buildings discussed in this article are those that have certain h
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