With the nearing close of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the state of the world is far from healthy. Environmental degradation, economic malaise,…
The heritage field has long been plagued by threats of irrelevance, cast as outside the real business of society. But in a growing number of…
Restoration of the statue of Ta Reach, which stands in the West Gate of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, was completed between 2001 and 2003 as an…
The notion persists that by the time Philadelphia achieved political and economic prominence in the mid-eighteenth century, it was a “wholesome grid of streets and…
Architecture changed in the twentieth century. Long held notions regarding permanence and the continuity of tradition were fractured by the trauma of the First World…
AN INTERVIEW In September 2009 you delivered one of the keynote addresses to the 10th World Congress of the Organization of World Heritage Cities in…
Globalization is an enduring utopian ideal. But it is in immemorial conflict with heritage and identity. Hence ecumenical hopes are perennially dashed. We long to…
In her 2005 book Repair, the Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World, the writer and philosopher Elizabeth Spelman puts forth the notion that human…
