TY - JOUR
KW - Ahmedabad
KW - Building materials
KW - Cultural heritage preservation
KW - Cultural heritages
KW - cultural practices
KW - Digital devices
KW - Digital technologies
KW - Digital tools
KW - Electronic document exchange
KW - Gujarat
KW - Heritage preservation
KW - Historic preservation
KW - India
KW - Indian cultural heritage
KW - Jodhpur
KW - Rajasthan
KW - Sustainable economy
KW - Sustainable resources
KW - Technology transfer
KW - Capacity building
KW - construction material
KW - cultural heritage
KW - Digital image
KW - documentary source
KW - Economic development
KW - integrated documentation
KW - Preservation
KW - survey and representation
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Technology transfer
KW - Valorization
AU - Luca Rossato
AU - Pietro Massai
AU - Federica Maietti
AU - Marcello Balzani
AB - The vernacular historic cities can be defined as an ensemble of local needs and construction materials-based architectures which reflects local traditions and cultures. Very often adaptive processes for sustaining settlements such as the vernacular ones are based on both sustainable resources and cultural practices. This set of indigenous, ecological, biological, and cultural characteristics make vernacular historic cities valuable place for the valorization of local cultures and intangible heritage. Nowadays, dealing with the challenging task of heritage preservation in emerging countries, technologies are very often economically uncompetitive if used without the right methodology and a proper use. This study highlights the application of digital technologies for the documentation of historic city centers in fragile contexts such as global south countries by a deep case studies analysis of the Indian old cities of Ahmedabad and Jodhpur. The main aim of the research was to evaluate accuracy requirement and assess digital tools for heritage preservation end enhancement. By means of affordable use of digital technologies, the research stressed the existence of a strong relation between sustainable economy development and cultural heritage preservation even through capacity building activities carried out on field.
DO - 10.1080/15583058.2019.1683778
M1 - 6
N1 - Publisher: Bellwether Publishing, Ltd.
N2 - The vernacular historic cities can be defined as an ensemble of local needs and construction materials-based architectures which reflects local traditions and cultures. Very often adaptive processes for sustaining settlements such as the vernacular ones are based on both sustainable resources and cultural practices. This set of indigenous, ecological, biological, and cultural characteristics make vernacular historic cities valuable place for the valorization of local cultures and intangible heritage. Nowadays, dealing with the challenging task of heritage preservation in emerging countries, technologies are very often economically uncompetitive if used without the right methodology and a proper use. This study highlights the application of digital technologies for the documentation of historic city centers in fragile contexts such as global south countries by a deep case studies analysis of the Indian old cities of Ahmedabad and Jodhpur. The main aim of the research was to evaluate accuracy requirement and assess digital tools for heritage preservation end enhancement. By means of affordable use of digital technologies, the research stressed the existence of a strong relation between sustainable economy development and cultural heritage preservation even through capacity building activities carried out on field.
SP - 931
EP - 941
TI - Digital Tools for Documentation and Analysis of Vernacular Cultural Heritage in Indian City Centers
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85074867544&doi=10.1080%2f15583058.2019.1683778&partnerID=40&md5=ac0908e0115f48a7767941de4d9eb824
VL - 15
SN - 15583058 (ISSN)
ER -