As cities grow and change, is it important to preserve their history?
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AnswerHistoric heritage are places of significance to people on account of historical, physical (ie, technological, archaeological, architectural) and cultural values. Historic heritage is often referred to as cultural and historic heritage or simply ׳historic places׳.” (2011)
Historic towns often exhibit a rich mixture of social, cultural, architectural and historical heritage values (Cohen, 1999, Cullen, 1961). However, streetscapes, urban fabrics and buildings are developing and changing to suit the demands of stakeholders while the role of urbanization in preserving the heritage characteristics of the environment is ignored. It is the responsibility of stakeholders to work to conserve the distinctive character and quality of the historic environment for future generations. Development of towns and cities is not certainly destructive, but haphazard growth, the ungovernable intrusion of modernization, poor planning and inadequate awareness of heritage values combine to produce a host of problems that threaten the tangible and intangible heritage (Persson, 2004).
In developing countries like India, urbanization is taking place at an unprecedented rate (Nandi and Gamkhar, 2013). Urbanization threatens many heritage towns possessed of unique aesthetic, architectural, cultural and historical significance. The number of metropolises in India with a million or more people has increased from only 18 in 2001–53 in 2011 (INDIA STATS, 2011) and historical-heritage temple towns are especially undergoing a rapid transition due to urbanization without regard for changes in their built heritage (Kiruthiga and Thirumaran, 2017, Lee, 1996, PEARL, 2015). Thus, this paper aims to identify the urbanization factors causing the changes in the characteristics of built-heritage in the historic-heritage temple town of Kumbakonam in Tamilnadu, India. The primary goals of this paper are (1) to identify the factors leading to changes in buildings and the heritage character of Kumbakonam and (2) to investigate how these factors contribute to changes in buildings in the selected study area. The ordinal regression model was selected as the method for attaining these goals because it is well suited for modeling categorical data when it is not possible to utilize absolute numerical measurements.
This paper is divided into five sections. Following the introduction, 2 Background, 3 Conceptual framework explain the background of the study and provide the conceptual framework for urbanization and changes in built-heritage. Section 4 describes the study area and the variables selected for the empirical study. In that section, we discuss the empirical model, the dependent and predictor variables used in the study. Then, the following Section 5 describes the findings and discussion and Section 6 presents the conclusions.
2. Background
UNESCO׳s recommendations on planning for the Historic Urban Landscape emphasize that the urban heritage is a social, cultural, and economic asset (UNESCO, 2011). The identification, conservation, and management of historic areas should be included in a broad approach in urban planning that focuses on physical characteristics as well as sociocultural and economic values. While most rapid urbanization in the Asian context results in a decline in the built heritage of the historic environment (Zhang and Wan, 2015), the conservation of heritage sites is alive and well in some tourism and associated commercial markets (Amin, 2018). Most of the Asian countries confront the pressure of urbanization to protect the identity and continuity of their rich heritage.:
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