People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation:Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Exploring emotional attachments to historic places: Bridging concept, practice and method Concept: place as emotional construct Practice: moving away from place as geographic location? Method: accessing attachments to historic places Structuring the collection References Chapter 2: Attachment to older or historic places: Relating what we know from the perspectives of phenomenology and neuroscience Introduction Phenomenologies: radically empirical, qualitative, pre-reflective inquiry into people and older places Questions, methods and analysis in phenomenology Neuropsychological and neurobiological evidence for how people perceive and experience place Questions, methods and analysis in neuropsychology and neurobiology and an example Conclusion Works cited Part I: Cities and towns Chapter 3: Longing for the past: Lost cities on social media Introduction Interdisciplinary insights Ethics of social media research The lost cities Following lost cities Liking lost cities Commenting on lost cities Lost Edinburgh Lost Perth Curating lost cities Emotional attachment and nostalgia Conclusion References Chapter 4: Histories of urban heritage: Emotional and experiential attachments across time and space Setting the scene Language, lovability and place attachment Working with language Melbourne Lovability Index Ballarat Imagine Sorrento and Queenscliff Sea Change study Language and history Getting to the heart of things What can a lexicon of emotion offer? Notes References Chapter 5: Emoji as method: Accessing emotional responses to changing historic places 1 Emoji culture: describing emotional states and stimulating emotional responses Emoji research: a nascent field Emoji as method(s) Photo-emoji elicitation Historic maps and aerial photos DIY plaque Place and time Emotions and heritage management Conclusion Note References Weblinks Part II: Neighbourhoods Chapter 6: Narrating places – blurring boundaries: Co-creating digital histories of place Locating protest Collaborate or perish In Real Life (IRL) Authority and the survey Conclusion References Conference papers Interviews Chapter 7: Living in and Loving Leith: Using ethnography to explore place attachment and identity processes Introduction Understanding the ‘meaning-making’ process Ethnography, auto-ethnography and walking in place Place, identity and the past Auld Leithers Real Leithers Adopted Leithers New Leithers Discussing attachment to, and through, places, identities and pasts Conclusion References Chapter 8: Re-creating memories of Gulou: Three temporalities and emotions Introduction: re-enacting the Bell and Drum Towers tradition Memory, space and emotional attachments Methodology: ethnography and the analysis of emotions Memories around the Gulou Project: understanding temporalities and emotions Officials: authorised owners of the place, history to be restored and designed Preservationists: spiritual owners: history to be recorded and maintained Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Centre Gulou Preservation Team Local discourse: strangers in their own place, history to be remembered and forgotten Conclusion: time, memory and emotion References Chapter 9: Visual research methodologies and the heritage of ‘everyday’ places Place attachment in heritage practice Two Australian examples Multi-sensory engagement with place Concluding remarks: pitfalls and opportunities Acknowledgements Notes References Part III: Sites Chapter 10: Building emotional GIS: A spatial investigation of place attachment for urban historic environments in Edinburgh, Scotland Introduction Place attachment, civic engagement and place attachment mapping The spatial attributes of place attachment Method Case study area Instrument Sampling Data collection Data preparation and analysis Results The creation of EGIS Discussion Limitations Building an EGIS for civic engagement The future of place attachment mapping and EGIS Declaration of conflicting interests Acknowledgements Notes References Chapter 11: Observing attachment: Understanding everyday life, urban heritage and public space in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico Introduction Understanding urban heritage through observations on everyday life and spatial culture Research methods The exploration stage: observations, morphological analysis, interviews and archival analysis Mapped observations Participant observation Morphological analysis Interviews and memories of the Plazuela Archival analysis The complementary stage: questionnaires and interviews Plazuela de la Campana and music in the historic centre of Veracruz The revitalisation of the Plazuela with music and dance The urban form, use and sociability On the relation of everyday life, place attachment and heritage Conclusions Bibliography Chapter 12: It’s only a joke if you don’t take the fitness industry seriously: Photographs as archives of place attachment at the early twentieth-century gym The gym as heritage place Imaging historical expressions of emotion and place attachment The emperor has no clothes: Eugen Sandow, turn of the century, British Empire Mythologies of Muscle Beach, 1930s USA On Broadway: Grace Brothers Gymnasium, postwar Australia Conclusion Note References Chapter 13: Making visible attachments: artists as a lever for highlighting a sense of place and emotional attachments to heritage: Articulating public art and urban renovation in Porto-Novo, Benin Exploring the sensitive and emotional dimensions of heritage: investigating what matters for people New patrimonialisation processes focusing on people Public art: a way of revealing symbolic and poetic dimensions of the city? The traditional squares of Porto-Novo: combining cultural, religious and social heritage The fundamental role of the voodoo culture A multifaceted attachment to the squares: ‘I consider it like the apple of my eye’ The renovation of the squares: articulating heritage valorisation and artistic creation A participatory approach Collecting and sharing histories and memories of the squares Artists and residents co-designing art works A new image of the squares: increased attachment to heritage Art works for revealing intangible heritage, bridging the past and the present (Re)discovery, (re)appropriation and transmission of heritage Improving the urban environment: strengthening senses of place and belonging Sharing the heritage, widening the ‘common’ Conclusions Notes References Chapter 14: Emotional attachments to historic urban places: Heart-bombing heritage References Index