Introduction: Connecting Water and Heritage for the Future

Introduction: Connecting Water and Heritage for the Future

Hein, C.M. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics)
van Schaik, Henk (ICOMOS)
Six, Diederik (ICOMOS)
Mager, Tino (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics)
Kolen, Jan (Universiteit Leiden)
Ertsen, M.W. (TU Delft Water Resources)
Nijhuis, S. (TU Delft Landscape Architecture)
Verschuure, G.A (TU Delft Landscape Architecture)

Hein, Carola (editor)

2020

Water has served and sustained societies throughout the history of humankind. People have actively shaped its course, form, and function for human settlement and the development of civilizations. Around water, they have created socioeconomic structures, policies, and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws, and practices; and an extensive tangible network of infrastructure, buildings, and urban form. Today, the complex and diverse systems of the past are necessarily the framework for preservation and reuse as well as for new systems. Through twenty-one chapters in five thematic sections, this book links the practices of the past to a present in which heritage and water are largely two separate disciplinary and professional fields. It describes an alternative emerging present in which policymaking and design work together to recognize and build on traditional knowledge and skills while imagining how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes, and bodies of water.

Adaptive reuse
Center for Global Heritage and Development
Dutch water and heritage practice
ICOMOS
Policymaking
Water and heritage agenda
Water heritage

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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future

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© 2020 C.M. Hein, Henk van Schaik, Diederik Six, Tino Mager, Jan Kolen, M.W. Ertsen, S. Nijhuis, G.A Verschuure