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Proceedings: 11th ACLA - Asian Cultural Landscape Association - International Webinar on ‘Cultural Landscapes, Sacredscapes & Heritage Cities of Asia’. NUAA Nanjing, CHINA, 2021
The concept of Cultural Landscape refers to a complex cultural mosaic and network of spatiality of time, temporality of space, sacrality of nature and overall, the encompassing manifestation of transcendence of man who since time immemorial is trying to make a strong bridge between conscious mind and super-conscious divine. This way the interplay has been part of constant and continuous evolutionary drama between earthly Man and cosmic Nature, turning into various builtstructures and traditions that maintained continuity-maintenance-transformation and changes, of course always keeping the essence of the past that processed and get transferred from one generation to another. This makes the aliveness in the lifeways of the people and culture. Concept of cultural landscape has root in geographical thought and commonly accepted as one of the best strategies to understand and project the vividness and commonality of landscape and culture. This address is an attempt on the line of critical appraisal of history of Cultural Landscape, and its selected manifestation as representations, illustrated with some examples from Asia. Keywords: Cultural Landscape, heritage, cultural heritage, symbolism, Hindu cosmogony, sacredscapes, global message.
The 4th International Congress on Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban Development, Tehran (Iran), 27-29 December 2016, 2016
The aims of this paper is primarily to represent a clear prospect of why cultural landscapes are important, and what constitutes cultural landscape in the World Heritage context, then to address the significances and issues of the reconstructed urban cultural landscape of Bam city after the 2003 Bam earthquake, and to extract its implications for future considerations. To achieve this purpose, the study is divided into three main sections. The first section gives an overview about the world heritage cultural landscape, including the notion of cultural landscape and the history of the presentation of cultural landscape in the World Heritage List, and the ways for management of historic urban landscape. The second section will interpret and address the significances and characteristics of inscribed property of "Bam and its Cultural Landscape" in the WHL, issues on applying the convention, and current issues of cultural landscape conservation in the region. Finally, the third section is intended to survey about the history of urban morphology of Bam city, especially the reconstruction carried out after the earthquake, and seeks to know whether all of the city's authenticity and integrity, which are determined by various factors, have been achieved during reconstruction or not. The result of this study shows that the city of Bam as one of the unique ancient cities of Iran where before earthquake by its extraordinary historic urban landscape well showed the rich history of Bam's people in desert environment of Iran, after the earthquake has been faced with heterogeneous development, including alien architecture and destruction of the city's cultural or visual landscape. So that all of those changes have had led to the loss of infrastructure, urban identity, and disorganization in the urban hierarchy of Bam city.
Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements: xv-xvi; Foreword:- Prof. William Logan (Australia): 1-6; Heritagescapes and Cultural Landscapes: An Appraisal‒ Rana P.B. Singh (India): 7-56; UNESCO’s Heritage-scape: A Global Endeavour to Produce ‘Peace in the Minds of Men’ through Tourism and Preservation‒ Michael A. Di Giovine (USA): 57-86; Heritagescapes of India: Appraising Heritage Ecology‒ Rana P.B. Singh and Pravin S. Rana (India): 87-128; The World Heritage Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, Japan: Continuing Culture and Meeting Modernity‒ Rana P.B. Singh (India) and Fukunaga Masaaki (Japan): 129-150; Conservation of cultural landscape in Shirakawa-go‒ Nobu Kuroda (Japan): 151-172; Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Revitalizing a Mining Town in Mexico. The Case of Cerro de San Pedro‒ Josè G. Vargas-Hernàndez (México): 173-204; Varanasi, India’s Cultural Heritage City: Contestation, Conservation & Planning‒ Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (India): 205-254; Bodh Gaya, a World Heritage Site: Tourists and Native’s Perceptions of Heritage and its Conservation‒ Rana P.B. Singh and Devesh Kumar (India): 255-286; Revaluation and Restoration of Sacred Sites: The Case of Jordan‒ Sara Mondini (Italy): 287-302; People with Learning Difficulties and their inclusion within Cultural and Heritage Sites‒ Jonathan Rix (U.K.): 303-328; Appendices 1, 2 UNESCO: 329-332; the contributors: 329-330; Index: 331-337; Editor: 343. 26 Jan. 2011, 22 x 15cm; xvi + 344pp, 18 tables, 52 figures, <ca. 123,550 words> Hb, ISBN (10): 81-8290-226-6. Rs 1495.oo/ US$ 55. Shubhi Publications, New Delhi (India)
Cultural Landscapes and Heritage of Ayodhya, 2018
ICOMOS defined “heritage” as abroad concept that include tangible assets such natural and cultural environment, encompassing landscape, historic places, and build environment as well as intangible assets such as collection, past and continuing cultural practices, knowledge and living experiences – all kind of things which give knowledge about the past, they are under the heritage. These ideas of cultural landscapes and heritage are elaborated in Indian contexts (e.g. dharohar), taking examples of selected components with case study of Ayodhya. The generalized conclusions are: 1. The waterfront city growth model is in alliance with circular growth of city from the core to periphery, where river and sacred sites play a major role in its morphogenesis and organic form. 2. The growth and expansion of city and holy sites served as counter balance in keeping and maintaining the sacred sites as a part of lifeworld and ritualscapes. 3. The cultural traditions as evolved, continued and maintained lead to develop the imageability of the city; this is quite similar to several such holy cities like Chitrakut, Mathura, Varanasi, and Prayag (Allahabad). 4. Mythology always enriches the aliveness of sacredscapes and associative ritualscapes that altogether result into the formation of ‘faithscape’, which is also symbolised in the varying images and their attributes. 5. The niches, attributes and characteristics of sacredscape lead to the aliveness of heritage values; those should be taken as frame for evaluating the potentials to put the heritagescapes on the scale of UNESCO World Heritage Criteria. 6. The strategy of Inclusive Heritage Development in the broad structure of the Master Plan will be enriched by the detailed evaluation of the spatial and mapping of heritage properties, as already exemplified by the present study. vi + 336pp, 25 Tables, 69 Figures and diagrams, Bibliography, 3 Appendices, author’s short CV.
CV07.20. Cul_Lds_Heritg_Sty_RanaCV Pb_27_Jul_20, 2020
Sincerely involved as study partner and collaborator in deeper understanding, documentation, preservation and conservation of cultural landscapes (esp. sacred sites, cultural heritage sites, pilgrimages places, and related festivities) in Japan (e.g. Shirakawa-go Unesco heritage site; Shikoku pilgrimage routes and sites), Sweden (Mattila region), Italy (Milano, and some works of Leonardo da Vinci), Korea (Hahwe Unesco WHS; Gimhae with comparative study of Ayodhya- India; rural area in China, near Beijing); the results are published in papers, and some are already in the process. Sacred landscapes, pilgrimage sites and related ritual and festivities, Landscape Geometry, Planning Cultural ; landscape in the light of SDGs. Since last over 45 years, after my PhD on « Clan Settlements in Saran Plain : A Study of Cultural Landscapes » (1974 ; published in revised form in1977), I am fully involved in study, cross-cultural comparision (with Japan, Korea, Korea, China, Sweden, and Italy), and programmes related to understanding and awakening, conservation, preservation of cultural landscapes. On these themes my publications include 14 books and anthologies and 159 research papers/essays. All these details may be seen at : https://banaras.academia.edu/RanaPBSINGH/Papers, Ref. 621.20.
Statement of the problem. The goal of this research is to present the basis and concepts related to the climate and culture corresponding to the landscape of North railway, which has attracted many tourists from around the world due to its climatic and cultural variety. It has been attempted to present in it the continuity of the culture and nature. This research is a descriptive-analytic study and the method of information collection is through studying the historical documents and books and field research. Result. The results of the present research indicate that the North railway, taking advantage of its special situation in terms of its climatic conditions, could provide a good background for expansion of tourism culture so that this issue would result into a unique relationship between the tourist and the nature.
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Cultural landscapes have acquired today unprecedented importance, especially for their decisive role in the building of territories. The material and immaterial cultural and natural attributes are so privileged, and that in view of the various civilizational challenges that societies face currently. This interest in cultural landscapes is noticeable in Algeria through the creation of cultural parks. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they highlight a new way of delimiting, oriented more toward cultural values which are inseparable from their natural environment. This approach combines so several categories of heritage to ensure complementarity and consistency to stakeholders. Five cultural parks currently exist in Algeria, they occupy considerable areas and are characterized by the presence of a rich cultural heritage, ancestral and often very well preserved, consisting of traces of various ancient or prehistoric civilizations, oral expressions, songs, customs and traditional crafts. This communication aims to make a contribution on the understanding of the creative process of cultural parks in Algeria and measure the role of cultural landscapes in their delimitation.
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