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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Tim Townshend, Professor Rose Gilroy, Professor John Pendlebury
Debates about the socially inclusionary potential of heritage have to date focused principally on heritage sites and museums. Relatively little attention has been paid to the wider Cultural Built Heritage (CBH) that surrounds us in our everyday lives. This paper starts with a brief theoretical exploration of the social role of heritage and the key policy background. Then, based on an understanding of policy and action in England, this paper sets out a framework for considering how this wider CBH might contribute to social inclusion. A fundamental binary divide is made between the role of CBH as historic places and opportunity spaces in which regeneration may occur. However, in neither case is action necessarily socially inclusive. The paper concludes that a greater clarity of objectives and definitions is necessary if CBH is to meet its potential to be socially inclusionary.
Author(s): Townshend T, Gilroy RC, Pendlebury JR
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Heritage Studies
Year: 2004
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 11-31
Print publication date: 01/03/2004
Date deposited: 03/04/2008
ISSN (print): 1352-7258
ISSN (electronic): 1470-3610
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1352725032000194222
DOI: 10.1080/1352725032000194222
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