Cultural Landscapes of South Asia Studies in heritage conservation and management

• Other Authors: Silva, Kapila D. (Editor), Sinha, Amita (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge 2017
• Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
• Subjects: Cultural landscapes > Case studies > South Asia; Historic sites > Case studies > Management > South Asia; Historic preservation > Case studies > South Asia; Cultural property > Case studies > Protection > South Asia
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Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement Award The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian-in their capacity to self‐o...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue : Imagining the Future of Conservation in South Asia / Rahul Mehrotra
• Conservation of Cultural Landscapes in Bhutan / Françoise Pommaret
• Blurring Boundaries and Moving Beyond the Tangible/Intangible and the Natural/Cultural Classifications of Heritage : Cases from Nepal / Neel Kamal Chapagain
• Cultures of the Landscape : A Paradigm of Enriching Diversity Un-recognized in the World Vision of Heritage in Pakistan / Anila Naeem
• The South Asian Shahar : Reimagining Shahariyat as Urban heritage / Jyoti Pandey Sharma
• The Historic Urban Landscape of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh / Farhana Ferdous
• "All the world coming and going" : the past and future of the Grand Trunk Road in Punjab, India / Manish Chalana
• The Modernist Historic Urban Landscape of Islamabad, Pakistan / Farhan Karim
• The Landscape Theatre of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka : Interaction of the Regal, Natural and Agricultural Landscapes / Nilan Cooray
• The symbolic authenticity of Kandy, Sri Lanka / Kapila D. Silva
• The Cultural Landscape of Pohela Boishakh Festival and the Making of a National Identity in Bangladesh / Nubras Samayeen and Sharif Shams Imon
• Tourism, Liquid Modernity and Bhutanese Traditional Festivals / Wantanee Suntikul
• Bhaktapur, Nepal : Heritage Values and Conservation Practices / Kapila D. Silva
• Getting the City Back to its People : Conservation and Management of Historic Ahmedabad, India / Debashish Nayak
• The Public Realm of Heritage Sites in India : Sustainable Approaches Towards Planning and Management / Amita Sinha
• Grounded Speculations on Cultural Landscape Conservation / Amita Sinha
• Epilogue : Prospects for Conserving South Asian Cultural Landscapes / Kapila D. Silva.