Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su12041605
Keywords
critical heritage; sustainable development; urban sustainability; neighborhood sustainability assessment (NSA); BREEAM-C; LEED-ND
Funding
- European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme [774233]
- H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [774233] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programme
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This article reports on a critical review of how cultural heritage is addressed in two internationally well-known and used neighborhood assessment tools (NSAs): BREEAM Communities (BREEAM-C) and LEED Neighborhood Design (LEED-ND). The review was done through a discourse analysis in which critical heritage studies, together with a conceptual linking of heritage to sustainability, served as the point of departure. The review showed that while aspects related to heritage are present in both NSAs, heritage is re-presented as primarily being a matter of safeguarding material expressions of culture, such as buildings and other artifacts, while natural elements and immaterial-related practices are disregarded. Moreover, the NSAs institutionalize heritage as a field of formal knowledge and expert-dominated over the informal knowledge of communities.
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