World Heritage Convention
Sites are designated as
World Heritage sites
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Important for humanity
Human intervention
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Brings cultural value
Cultural Landscape
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Differs from natural landscapes solely by the
factor of the human environment
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Deeper power than the natural world
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We physically built something there that
interacts with the natural environment
Possibilities
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Purely natural: can connect to sacredness and
sanctity
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Blend of natural and man-made
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Completely man-made
Natural features
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Can connect to sacredness and sanctity
Rice Terraces in the
Philippines
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World Heritage site
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There is a push to keep things as they are
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Lifestyle, practice that is part of the
community’s heritage
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Do we want to fossilize them inside of that
lifestyle?
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Enormous landscape
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Communities are struggling to adapt
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Terrace, to get a flat terrain to grow rice
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Another crop would change the landscape
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Commodification of heritage
1920s Clarence Stein &
Henry Wright
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Regional Planning association of America
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Drew from the Garden City Movement
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Radburn, New Jersey
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A push back from the industrial city
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Create healthy communities with the best of the
city and the country in one setting
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The first community to use the cul de sac
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Cul de sac was at the back
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The car never entered the house from the front
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Garage was at the back
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Automobile was not going to be primary
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NOW the garage is front
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Considered the National Historic District
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Gave birth to 100s of suburban communities
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Sidewalks disappeared
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Some suburban communities are worth saving
Suburbanization
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Levittown
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Freedom Tower, a lot of people thought Twin
Towers should just be a memorial
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As time goes on, the number of people who say it
is a degradation will decline?
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The way we perceive these spaces evolves over
time
Mostar, Bosnia
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Ethnic cleansing of Muslims
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Bridge was destroyed in conflict
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Area was designated as a World Heritage site
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Stari Most
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Casualties of ethnic and religious conflict
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Erase the identity of the other group
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Remove the physical associations of that
community’s heritage, objects, artifacts
Looting in Iraq
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So invading forces don’t get their hands on it
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There HAVE been international treaties to curb
the movement of stolen artifacts
Artifact treaties
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Museums have to prove the history of the
ownership
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If you have a clear chain of ownership that is
legal
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Private collectors are less accountable than
museums, objects are bought on the Black Market
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Antiquities trade, revenue for ISIS to fund
their own activities
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The country would need to go through the US
court system
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