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These surfaces are of profound scientific, cultural, heritage, environmental, and aesthetic importance. Unfortunately, they are threatened - by graffiti.
The proposal that monuments must be preserved at any cost hinders rather than helps institutions handle the decolonisation of their collections.
The closure of physical buildings doesn’t have to mean that new readers should miss out on literary history
If communities don’t understand and support local heritage protections, perhaps that’s a reflection on how the system works and not just evidence of a need for public education.
We surveyed 1461 Australians and discovered many are museum regulars — but it’s family history that has broad appeal.
Heritage is non-renewable — just like the mineral wealth of this country.
Proposals to improve the capital’s urban design and density must also take account of the city’s unique streetscapes.
It’s people, in addition to architecture or history, that make some meeting places worthy of heritage protection. Social values are now among the listing criteria, but many such places remain at risk.
Britain’s heritage is steeped in the remnants and history of slavery, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it.
Jack Mundey fought to save Australia’s urban and environmental heritage. An architect of green bans, his lifelong efforts empowered citizens to assert their right to keep the heritage of their city.
Bhaktapur suffered 300 deaths, 2,000 wounded and over 30,000 houses damaged in the 2015 earthquake. Heritage restoration has become crucial to community recovery.
Community projects play a vital role in city life.
If the US makes good on the president’s threat, Iran’s heritage won’t be the only thing damaged. Washington’s reputation would also take a hit.
People tend to pay attention when things get personal, so you need to know how climate change is damaging things in your life.
Mining companies and some heritage consultants don’t understand the sacredness attached to ancestral remains, and the meaning of land in African communities.
Visitors to these sites had one particular religious ritual that may strike some as strange: they carved graffiti in important and sacred places.
A youthful Fed Square satisfied five criteria to be added to the Victorian Heritage Register. The listing protects the square as a public place, but doesn’t prevent its continuing evolution.
Two thirds of China’s 900m rural residents are moving to cities. Now, architects are finding ways to preserve their built heritage, before it disappears.
Looking back at Lviv’s Soviet past, there are clues about how to preserve history for everyone – not just the affluent.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Federation University Australia
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Architecture, University of Liverpool
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Management, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University