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Cultural Heritage Preservation for Vulnerable Territories

The Hunan Province in China

  • Book
  • Jul 2024

Overview

  • Brings together scholars with different backgrounds and professionals
  • Provides state-of-the-art information of historical architecture and landscape heritage
  • Shows original case studies ranging from architectural preservation to cultural heritage

Part of the book series: Creativity, Heritage and the City (CHC, volume 7)

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Keywords

  • cultural heritage
  • Fragile Territories
  • Architectural Preservation
  • Risk Assessment
  • Endangered Heritage
  • Resilient territories
  • Social Reactivation

About this book

This book frames the many-sided fragilities of Hunan Province’s Heritage. It originates from a ten-year-long international cooperation between Politecnico di Milano (Italy), dealing from the Seventies with architectural preservation and adaptive reuse’s teaching and research activities, and the School of Architecture of the Hunan University of Changsha (China). From the Preservation of Landscape Heritage to Historical cities and settlements preservation and ancient and modern architecture preservation, the tangible and intangible cultural heritage protection and valorization, from the social repercussions to the environmental issues, the contributions introduce different aspects of Hunan territory’s cultural richness and fragility. The common aim of the rich mosaic of case studies presented at different scales is mapping, understanding, and considering the weaknesses of sites to be addressed sustainably. This is done while seeking cultural resilience-driven preservation solutions regarding operational guidelines and policies, risk assessment, social awareness, and teaching innovation. There is also a focus on virtuous multi-scale management of advanced digital technologies used to describe the current conditions and to drive the compatible design methodology on cultural heritage.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Augelli

  • Segrate, Italy

    Matteo Rigamonti

About the editors

Francesco Augelli is an architect who specializes in the Restoration of Monuments and has a Ph.D. in Architectural Preservation. Enabled as a full professor, he works at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU) as an associate professor of the Architectural Preservation Studio at Master Courses of Politecnico di Milano. Since 2005, he has taught diagnostic of woodwork and preservation techniques at the Specialization School of Architectural and Landscape Heritage of Politecnico di Milano. He is also an honorary doctor at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia and an honorary professor at Hunan University (Changsha, China), where he has collaborated since 2009.

He has skills and does research in architectural engineering, higher education, and international education.

 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Heritage Preservation for Vulnerable Territories

  • Book Subtitle: The Hunan Province in China

  • Editors: Francesco Augelli, Matteo Rigamonti

  • Series Title: Creativity, Heritage and the City

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54389-0Due: 22 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54392-0Due: 22 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54390-6Due: 22 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2366-4584

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-4592

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 175 illustrations in colour

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