The Nexus between Cultural Heritage Management and the Mental Health of Urban Communities

In authorized cultural heritage management discourse, heritage sites can be included in local government heritage registers if their aesthetic, scientific, historic or social values are deemed significant. While notionally providing protection from major alterations and destruction for the benefit o...

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Main Author: Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-02-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/304
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Summary:In authorized cultural heritage management discourse, heritage sites can be included in local government heritage registers if their aesthetic, scientific, historic or social values are deemed significant. While notionally providing protection from major alterations and destruction for the benefit of future generations, such listings primarily serve the present generation whose values they reflect. This paper considers the role that cultural heritage places play in terms of community identity and their contribution to a sense of place, to place attachment and, by implication, to personal and community mental health.
ISSN:2073-445X