CO4011 Urban Conservation and Practice Syllabus:
CO4011 Urban Conservation and Practice Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
To introduce to the students the idea of conservation as enhancing quality of life, as effective planning strategy, as means of particularization of place and as a way to address issues of memory and identity.
To introduce the students to issues and practices of urban conservation at various levels and scales.
To give an overview of current status of conservation in India.
To examine the conservation process of maintaining and managing change to a heritage asset in a way that sustains and where appropriate enhances its significance.
To introduce the student to the various norms and planning tools to improve tourism and urban conservation.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION
Understanding Heritage. Types of Heritage. Heritage conservation – Need, Debate and purpose. Defining Conservation, Preservation and Adaptive reuse. Distinction between Architectural and Urban Conservation. International agencies like ICCROM, UNESCO and their role in Conservation
UNIT II CONSERVATION IN INDIA
Museum conservation – monument conservation and the role of Archeological Survey of India – roleof INTACH – Central and state government policies and legislations – inventories and projects – select case studies – craft Issues of conservation –conservation project management.
UNIT III CONSERVATION PRACTICE
Listing of monuments – documentation of historic structures – assessing architectural character – historic report – guidelines for preservation, rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of historic structures – seismic retrofit and disabled access /services additions to historic buildings – heritage site management.
UNIT IV URBAN CONSERVATION
Over view of urban history of India and Tamil Nadu – understanding the character and issues of historic cities – select case studies of sites like Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, Kanchipuram, Chettinad – historic districts and heritage precincts.
UNIT V CONSERVATION AND URBAN PLANNING
Norms for conservation of heritage buildings and sites as part of Development Regulations – Conservation as a planning tool – financial incentives and planning tools such as TDR, (transferable development right) – Urban conservation and heritage tourism.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Students able to
CO1 Relate, be sensitive as well as be informed to carry forth understanding urban conservation in the realm of practice/research.
CO2 Explain and understand the need and benefits of urban conservation
CO3 Apply the interrelated policies of urban conservation
CO4 Analyze the various case studies and understand the essence of the urban setting and conservation process
CO5 Build knowledge in terms of understanding what norms are applied in specific urban areas or heritage districts.
REFERENCES:
1. A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty – First Century by Robert E. Stipe.
2. A.G.K. Memon ed. Conservation of Immovable Sites, INTACH Publication, N.Delhi Seminar Issue on Urban Conservation.
3. B.K. Singh, State and Culture, Oxford, New Delhi.
4. Bernard Feilden, Conservation of Historic Buildings, 2nd Edition, Butterworth, 1994.
5. Christropher Brereton, The repair of Historic Buildings. Advice on principles and methods; English Heritage 1991.
6. Conservation Manual, Bernard Fielden
7. Donald Apple yard, The Conservation of European Cities, M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts.
8. James M. Fitch, Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World by University Press of Virginia; Reprint edition (April 1, 1990)