Valuing Cultural Landscape Heritage in Historic Areas: Proposed Assessment Criteria from Thailand (original) (raw)
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Most of the ancient cultures, especially the Asians in the ancient past ordered the natural world on cosmological principles and shaped harmonious relation with nature. Mountains and springs, plains and rivers, were sites and channels of sacred power from historical events and timeless sacred forces. And, geographical features were inscribed by human hands to mark their sacredness in the frame of built structures. Such natural and constructed places commonly became centres of religious heritage and pilgrimage, serving as pivot of harmonizing the world through their inherent message and underpinning meanings. That is how they require special care for understanding and planning. A heritage resource that can contribute to maintain environment and landscape serene in its nature, cleanliness in outlook, aesthetically beautiful, ecofriendly in interrelationship, socially cohesive, culturally awakened in order to make Man-Nature integration and aliveness more sustainable, the ACLA (Asian Cultural Landscape Association) has been formed recently on 3rd of December 2012. The ACLA shall highlight the 'Cultural Landscapes as Living Cultural-Sustainable Resources'; foster the safeguard and sustainable use of the unique and diverse cultural landscapes and heritagescapes of Asian Region; promote the physical, natural and cultural heritagescapes, traditions, crafts and creativity as driving forces for overall sustainable landscape development. Cultural landscapes ranging from cultivated terraces on lofty mountains, gardens, to sacred places testify to the creative genius, social development and the imaginative and spiritual vitality of humanity. Cultural Landscape is a " Design with Nature for Humankind ". This way 'cultural landscapes' represent visionary symbiosis and interpretive synthesis. As established notion " cultural landscapes " inspired by the belief that preservation and protection of globally, nationally, regionally and locally significant cultural landscapes, both designed and vernacular, are critical to sustaining the continuum of land use and history across generations. Therefore, protection of these cultural landscape resources offers inspirational values and an appreciation of past and present ingenuity, accomplishments, hardships, and hopes, as well as insight into future land use, design solutions and maintenance of heritagescapes. The varieties and distinct sacredscapes and cultural landscapes of Asia are projected here in the frame of unitary principles and commonality that can help framing the Asian Vision of harmonising the world. Keywords: Asian vision, Cultural landscapes, Sacred sites, Sacredscapes, harmonising.