Managing Built Heritage: The Role of Cultural Values and Significance

This book examines management of built heritage through the use of values–led decision making based on an understanding of the significance of the cultural asset. It considers how significance is assessed and used as an effective focus and driver for management strategies and processes.

Effective management of built heritage requires a clear understanding of what makes an asset significant – and how that significance might be vulnerable – but the book also emphasises how this understanding must inform all activities in order to ensure that what is important about an asset is protected and enhanced.

There has been much fundamental rethinking since the publication of the first edition – both nationally and internationally – on approaches to the conservation of the built heritage. This Second Edition of Managing Built Heritage– the role of cultural values and significance remains analytical and reflective but also draws on real life examples to illustrate particular issues, looking at current approaches and drawing out best practice.

The authors consider key policies and procedures that need to be implemented to help ensure effective management.  The book will be useful for specialists in built heritage – conservation officers, heritage managers, architects, planners, engineers and surveyors – as well as for facilities and estates managers whose building stock includes protected or designated structures or buildings in conservation or other historic areas.