MH4005 Urban Cultural Landscapes Syllabus:
MH4005 Urban Cultural Landscapes Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES
To give understanding of social and cultural diversity as design generators.
To introduce tools for documentation and analysis of urban cultural landscapes.
To introduce the various theories and discourses on urban cultural landscape.
To give understanding of the complex challenges involved in the practice of conservation of urban cultural landscapes through national and international case studies.
UNIT I DEFINING URBAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Introduction to the concept of Urban Cultural Landscape as the result of interplay between natural and built environment and as the generator of Spirit of place – uniqueness of place, peoples and traditions. Definition of Urban Cultural Landscapes and Historic Urban Landscape as understood in the international framework (Vienna Memorandum, World Heritage Cities Programme, ICOMOS)
UNIT II TOOLS AND METHODS FOR MAPPING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Tools and methods to delineate, document and analyze the complexity of the urban cultural landscape; Mapping tangible and intangible values (recording oral history and traditional knowledge systems)
UNIT III URBAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: THEORIES AND DISCOURSE
Introduction to the evolution of theories and discourse on urban cultural landscape. Inclusion of traditional and indigenous cultural values, emphasis on local and lived experience, collective memory, identity, meaning and association, local and traditional knowledge systems, sacred landscape.
UNIT IV URBAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: PRACTICE AND CHALLENGES
Challenges in managing urban continuity and change: global processes, urbanization and development, economics, changing cities, tourism. Shift from object or monument-centric approach to the notion of ‘value’ guided by urban values and the economic value of conservation. Shift from expert oriented approach to inter-disciplinary and community-based or people-centric approaches.
UNIT V CASE STUDIES
National and International case studies to understand the application of theoretical frameworks and trace the relation between discourse and practice of conservation of urban cultural landscapes
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOME
CO1 Ability to identify and appreciate the importance of social and cultural diversity
CO2 Ability to document urban cultural landscapes
CO3 Sensitivity to complex challenges involved in urban conservation
REFERENCES
1. Rana P.B. Singh, ‘Heritagescapes and Cultural Landscapes’, Shubhi Publications, 2011.
2. Mauro Agnoletti, ‘Conservation of Cultural Landscapes’, CABI, 2006.