People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation:Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places

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Table of Contents
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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Exploring emotional attachments to historic places: Bridging concept, practice and method
	Concept: place as emotional construct
	Practice: moving away from place as geographic location?
	Method: accessing attachments to historic places
	Structuring the collection
	References
Chapter 2: Attachment to older or historic places: Relating what we know from the perspectives of phenomenology and neuroscience
	Introduction
	Phenomenologies: radically empirical, qualitative, pre-reflective inquiry into people and older places
	Questions, methods and analysis in phenomenology
	Neuropsychological and neurobiological evidence for how people perceive and experience place
	Questions, methods and analysis in neuropsychology and neurobiology and an example
	Conclusion
	Works cited
Part I: Cities and towns
	Chapter 3: Longing for the past: Lost cities on social media
		Introduction
		Interdisciplinary insights
		Ethics of social media research
		The lost cities
		Following lost cities
		Liking lost cities
		Commenting on lost cities
			Lost Edinburgh
			Lost Perth
		Curating lost cities
		Emotional attachment and nostalgia
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Histories of urban heritage: Emotional and experiential attachments across time and space
		Setting the scene
		Language, lovability and place attachment
		Working with language
			Melbourne Lovability Index
			Ballarat Imagine
			Sorrento and Queenscliff Sea Change study
		Language and history
		Getting to the heart of things
		What can a lexicon of emotion offer?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Emoji as method: Accessing emotional responses to changing historic places 1
		Emoji culture: describing emotional states and stimulating emotional responses
		Emoji research: a nascent field
		Emoji as method(s)
		Photo-emoji elicitation
		Historic maps and aerial photos
		DIY plaque
		Place and time
		Emotions and heritage management
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
		Weblinks
Part II: Neighbourhoods
	Chapter 6: Narrating places – blurring boundaries: Co-creating digital histories of place
		Locating protest
		Collaborate or perish
		In Real Life (IRL)
		Authority and the survey
		Conclusion
		References
		Conference papers
		Interviews
	Chapter 7: Living in and Loving Leith: Using ethnography to explore place attachment and identity processes
		Introduction
		Understanding the ‘meaning-making’ process
		Ethnography, auto-ethnography and walking in place
		Place, identity and the past
			Auld Leithers
			Real Leithers
			Adopted Leithers
			New Leithers
		Discussing attachment to, and through, places, identities and pasts
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Re-creating memories of Gulou: Three temporalities and emotions
		Introduction: re-enacting the Bell and Drum Towers tradition
		Memory, space and emotional attachments
		Methodology: ethnography and the analysis of emotions
		Memories around the Gulou Project: understanding temporalities and emotions
			Officials: authorised owners of the place, history to be restored and designed
			Preservationists: spiritual owners: history to be recorded and maintained
				Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Centre
				Gulou Preservation Team
			Local discourse: strangers in their own place, history to be remembered and forgotten
		Conclusion: time, memory and emotion
		References
	Chapter 9: Visual research methodologies and the heritage of ‘everyday’ places
		Place attachment in heritage practice
		Two Australian examples
		Multi-sensory engagement with place
		Concluding remarks: pitfalls and opportunities
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
Part III: Sites
	Chapter 10: Building emotional GIS: A spatial investigation of place attachment for urban historic environments in Edinburgh, Scotland
		Introduction
			Place attachment, civic engagement and place attachment mapping
			The spatial attributes of place attachment
		Method
			Case study area
			Instrument
			Sampling
			Data collection
			Data preparation and analysis
		Results
		The creation of EGIS
		Discussion
			Limitations
			Building an EGIS for civic engagement
			The future of place attachment mapping and EGIS
		Declaration of conflicting interests
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: Observing attachment: Understanding everyday life, urban heritage and public space in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico
		Introduction
		Understanding urban heritage through observations on everyday life and spatial culture
		Research methods
			The exploration stage: observations, morphological analysis, interviews and archival analysis
			Mapped observations
			Participant observation
			Morphological analysis
			Interviews and memories of the Plazuela
			Archival analysis
			The complementary stage: questionnaires and interviews
		Plazuela de la Campana and music in the historic centre of Veracruz
		The revitalisation of the Plazuela with music and dance
			The urban form, use and sociability
		On the relation of everyday life, place attachment and heritage
		Conclusions
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: It’s only a joke if you don’t take the fitness industry seriously: Photographs as archives of place attachment at the early twentieth-century gym
		The gym as heritage place
		Imaging historical expressions of emotion and place attachment
		The emperor has no clothes: Eugen Sandow, turn of the century, British Empire
		Mythologies of Muscle Beach, 1930s USA
		On Broadway: Grace Brothers Gymnasium, postwar Australia
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 13: Making visible attachments: artists as a lever for highlighting a sense of place and emotional attachments to heritage: Articulating public art and urban renovation in Porto-Novo, Benin
		Exploring the sensitive and emotional dimensions of heritage: investigating what matters for people
			New patrimonialisation processes focusing on people
			Public art: a way of revealing symbolic and poetic dimensions of the city?
		The traditional squares of Porto-Novo: combining cultural, religious and social heritage
			The fundamental role of the voodoo culture
			A multifaceted attachment to the squares: ‘I consider it like the apple of my eye’
		The renovation of the squares: articulating heritage valorisation and artistic creation
			A participatory approach
			Collecting and sharing histories and memories of the squares
			Artists and residents co-designing art works
		A new image of the squares: increased attachment to heritage
			Art works for revealing intangible heritage, bridging the past and the present
			(Re)discovery, (re)appropriation and transmission of heritage
			Improving the urban environment: strengthening senses of place and belonging
			Sharing the heritage, widening the ‘common’
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: Emotional attachments to historic urban places: Heart-bombing heritage
		References
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