Heritage Benefits Bibliography

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  Australian Heritage Commission. 2001
  Australian Historic Themes: A framework for use in heritage assessment and management. Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission.This innovative resource comes with a foldout separate document made up of the themes and sub-themes themselves. Both are available as a pdf files. The Thematic Framework comprises nine Theme Groups which encompass and are elaborated by a network of more specific themes: tracing the evolution of the Australian environment; peopling Australia; developing local, regional and national economies; building settlements, towns and cities; working; educating; governing; developing Australia's cultural life; marking the phases of life.“The consistent organizing principle for the Thematic Framework is activity. By emphasizing the human activities that produced the places we value, and the human response to Australia's natural environment, places are related to the processes and stories associated with them, rather than to the type or function of place. The themes do not invalidate classifications such as type and function. Themes are simply another way of investigating and interpreting the history of a place.”I recommend this piece to anyone who is looking to articulate within structures or wishes to create structures networks.
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  Australian Wind Energy Association and Australian Council of National Trusts. 2005
  Wind Farms and Landscape Values: Stage One Final Report - Identifying Issues. Melbourne: Australian Wind Energy Association and Australian Council of National Trusts.This is a very interesting document because it actually looks at the value of landscapes. This particular document completes the first stage of a this three-stage project that aims “to ensure that valued Australian landscapes are protected while enabling wind farming development to occur within an agreed national framework, and to find creative solutions to landscape assessment issues and sustainable energy development, in the context of society’s evolving understanding of landscape values and concern about long-term climate protection.” The authors see this report as the essential first step towards achieving our goal of determining agreed approaches to the assessment of landscape values and the potential landscape impacts of wind developments.“The aim of Stage One is to identify, analyse and develop priorities for key issues and then develop a Stage Two Business Plan to guide that phase of the Project. Stage Two will involve developing an agreed methodology for assessing the landscape values of wind farm proposals. Stage Three will involve road-testing the methodology.”
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  Balmain Precinct Committee. 2005
  Submission from Balmain Precinct Committee to the Inquiry into the Policy Framework and Incentives for the Conservation of Australia’s Historic Built Heritage Places. Balmain Precinct Committee.This submission by a local Australian Committee makes its point succinctly:“Balmain provides a rich display of Australia’s early development. This includes workers’ cottages dating back to the early 1840’s, marine villas, townhouses, shops, hotels and other business establishments. The layout of our streets reflects the early tracks and delivery routes. All of this still has direct impact on our daily lives today. In some respects, our access and movement across the peninsula has not changed greatly in over 120 years. Very few areas in Australia reflect 205 years of European settlement as does Balmain. There is evidence to suggest that Balmain might be the oldest planned residential area in Australia.”
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  Barber, St. 2003
  Municipal Tax Incentives in Victoria, British Columbia—A Case Study. In Plan Canada (Vol. 43, Number 2.). From the Summary: “ Tax incentive programs to stimulate the rehabilitation of historic buildings have been used for years. Similar programs in Canada are beginning to demonstrate the same benefits in revitalizing communities, preserving heritage buildings and combating urban sprawl. In 1998, the City of Victoria became the first municipality in British Columbia to use a new heritage planning tool: property tax incentives introduced by the provincial government in 1994. The City introduced a program that provides property tax exemptions fro up to 10 years to developers who convert vacant or underused upper storeys of downtown heritage buildings to a residential use. Thus the City has created 98 new residential units downtown and stimulated $32 million of private investment in the substantial rehabilitation of 10 heritage buildings.”
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  Bennett, J. 2000
  Natural Heritage Valuation Methods: Applications to Cultural Heritage. In Heritage Economics: Challenges for Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century (Conference Proceedings 2000). Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission.This presentation by an economist is relevant because the situation facing decision makers with responsibilities in the natural heritage arena is similar to that facing those who determine policies for the management of cultural heritage. In both cases, information for decision-making is derived from a complex mixture of market and non-market sources. The paper explores the potential for cultural heritage applications of Choice Modelling, a non-market valuation technique that has been developed in the context of environmental protection. “A feature of Choice Modelling is its ability to yield a breakdown of the value a heritage protection proposal provides into its component parts–such as the so-called “ use” and “ non-use” values. Furthermore, Choice Modelling applications enable market data to be more accurately extrapolated to cover circumstances for which no data are currently available–such as is the case where a protection proposal will generate entirely new market conditions. It is concluded that these and other features of the technique provide it with some significant advantages over competing valuation techniques such as the Contingent Valuation Method.”The author concludes that much of the developmental work that has been done on techniques to further the economic evaluation of proposals to protect natural heritage assets would appear to be readily adaptable to the case of cultural heritage assessment.
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  Boyle, J.F., Ginsberg, S. and Oldman, S.G., revised by Rypkema, D.D. 2002
  A Guide to Tax-Advantaged Rehabilitation. Washington: National Trust for Historic Preservation.Originally published in 1986 and updated by Rypkema in 2002, this 16-page guide was reissued to “remind preservationists and investors that, while diminished from earlier years, the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit remains a valuable tool for saving historic buildings and revitalizing towns and cities throughout America.”
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  Brandes Gratz, R. 1999
  Cities Rebuilt, Cities Reborn. In The Journal of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Vol. 13, Number 2. Washington: National Trust for Historic Preservation.The Journal’s entire issue is made up of speeches from the 52nd National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This particular speech by an award-winning journalist and urban critic, lecturer and author is impassioned and compelling for the case it makes for the preservation of historic districts and their inherent ability to draw citizens. She note: “Thirty years ago Pasadena cleared a historic site in the center of town and built an enclosed mall to renew the city. The mall failed and is now almost vacant. Plans are under way to open the streets again and remove the roof()…()So many city leaders lack confidence in the inherent value of their existing retail downtown districts that they seek big financing and big investment to reinvent, rebuild and replace them. This kills a genuine downtown. The replacement never matches the quality lost.” Brandes Gratz believes that rebirth is happening, and that it is happening in small modest steps. “Just as deterioration occurred in small bites, rebirth occurs in small bites. It is happening in traditional neighbourhoods and old districts where the urban fabric has not been eviscerated by parking, enclosed malls, stadiums, convention centres and other replacement mega projects. It is happening where people are moving in, opening new businesses, making modest investments, repopulating once-vibrant areas, generating 24-hour activity and street life.”
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  British Government. 2004
  Government Response to ODPM Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee Report on the Role of Historic Buildings in Urban Regeneration. London: British Parliament.This document is comprised of 25 key recommendations around the role of historic buildings in urban regeneration. Here is recommendation number 1:“The historic environment has an important part to play in regeneration schemes helping to create vibrant interesting areas, boosting local economies and restoring local confidence. When historic buildings including churches and theatres are no longer needed for their original use, they are capable of conversion for a wide range of other purposes.”Each recommendation is followed by a comment or examples of how the recommendation is or should be implemented.
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  Butler, R. 2000
  The Loss of Regional Heritage and the Development of Regional Heritage Tourism in Western Countries: a Reoccurring Paradox? In Heritage Economics: Challenges for Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century (Conference Proceedings 2000). Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission.From the abstract: “It is paradoxical that during a period in which the rural heritage and landscape of many western countries is changing radically and even disappearing, tourism based on perceptions of that heritage has grown tremendously. The paper briefly examines these changes in the rural landscape and the replacement of many traditional activities and lifestyles with activities associated with leisure and tourism. While many of these activities were thought to be compatible with the traditional rural milieu and what was perceived to be the rural idyll, in reality tourism and leisure have themselves caused significant change in rural areas. The most recent forms of tourism and leisure activities practiced in many rural areas in western countries have little in common with anything rural beyond the location. The paper explores some of the issues and difficulties posed by this pattern of development, and reflects on the likely implications for the future.”Butler concludes: “It is essential that residents in rural areas, which are exposed to tourism, be made aware that tourism is more complex and problematic than is generally thought. There are crucial differences between expectations and realities of tourism in rural areas. Under the traditional expectations little planning for tourism is done, assumptions are made as to its role and effects, and positive outcomes are expected. In reality tourism is a major economic force, the second largest industry in the world and one extremely difficult to plan and control. It has a wide variety of impacts seldom appreciated by decision-makers, and is capable and often guilty of changing, and sometimes destroying the environment, physical and human, which has been its rationale (Butler, 1990; Mathieson and Wall, 1982). If expectations are not tempered with reality, frustration and disappointment can, and frequently do result. It is essential that if tourism is to be introduced to, or allowed to permeate an area, that it be planned for and integrated into the normal pattern of activity.”
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  Canadian Tourism Commission. 2003
  U.S. Heritage Tourism Enthusiasts: A Special Analysis of the Travel Activities and Motivation Survey (TAMS). Ottawa: Canadian Tourism Commission.This report focuses United States heritage tourism enthusiasts who have taken leisure trips in Canada and exhibit a particular interest in heritage-oriented activities when they travel. As such, they have taken leisure trips in Canada and, in many cases, to other destinations in the past couple of years and have included at least four of some of these activities or visits listed here: historical replicas of cities/towns, historic sites, general history museums and local festivals or fairs. This is just a sample.Of the 200.4 million American adults in 2000, about 34.5 million are heritage tourism enthusiasts (17%) according to the report. Of these, almost 1-in-4 claim to have taken a leisure trip within Canada during the past two years or so. Thus, Canada’s market for the heritage segment is approximately 8.3 million American adults.Again, this is a valuable resource in helping us understand demand for heritage tourism products.