Heritage Preservation: This Place Matters
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Learning Outcomes
- Learn ways to manage cultural assets for the purpose of improving social cohesion, supporting the economy, boosting morale, and celebrating the intangibles that draw people to places.
- Identify how the approaches for making communities sustainable are expansive, rather than restrictive.
- Understand the challenges and successes of planning for heritage.
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Heritage preservation acknowledges the value of historic buildings, landmarks, and monuments while honoring the narratives, institutions, and cultural imprint that contribute to a sense of place. Redevelopment initiatives that compromise cultural heritage are not sustainable because of the loss of irreplaceable assets.
In this course, learn how to successfully strike a balance between economic development and the sustainable management of cultural assets. Speakers explain how just being green is a restrictive interpretation of sustainability.
Learn how sustainability can conserve resources; respect local culture, heritage, and tradition; focus on quality balanced with economic opportunity for residents; and optimize visitors' experience by applying a creative mix of cultural, natural, and historic resources.
Discover how successful placemaking is not measured in numbers alone, but also in the integrity of the experience that contributes to the economic viability of the institutions, resources, community, and residents.