Between Planning and Heritage: Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Cultural Heritage

Il Progetto Nu.M.E. (Nuovo Museo Elettronico della Storia della Città di Bologna), è iniziato nel 1997 dall’idea di poter creare un ambiente virtuale che permettesse di realizzare una ricostruzione tridimensionale dell’habitat urbano e delle sue trasformazioni storiche dai giorni nostri al 1200. È nata così la città in 4 dimensioni (tre dimensioni spaziali più una temporale) che permette ai vis...

Cultural heritage and the environment

Air pollution can have a significant influence on the weathering of monuments and on the deterioration of museum objects and prehistoric cave paintings. Three important mechanisms of stone weathering will be discussed, and an overview of analysis techniques invoked for the assessment of the degradation processes will be given. The effects of several air pollutants on works of art are reviewed, ...

Evaluating U.S. National Heritage Areas: theory, methods, and application.

Like many governmental actors in recent decades, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has operated increasingly through partnerships with other state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups, and private sector corporations. Perhaps the most salient example of this trend toward partnerships is the rapid growth and development of national heritage areas (NHAs...

Copyright Protection and Cultural Heritage

This paper explores the tensions between universal access to cultural heritage online and the varying copyright and other issues that may impinge on this apparent utopia. In particular, we argue for multiple routes to accessing information to avoid monopolistic or commercial dominance of the field. As largely altruistic institutions, cultural organizations should ensure the issues are discussed...