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Author:   Rana P. B. Singh ,  Olimpia Niglio ,  Pravin S. Rana
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9789811962738

ISBN 10:   9811962731
Pages:   367
Publication Date:   08 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction. Interfaces among Placemaking and Cultural Landscapes: Review and Appraisal.- Vision and Exposition of Placemaking: Homage and Memorial Tribute to Sung-Kyun Kim.- Pung-su: Evolving Cultural Landscapes and Placemaking in Korea.- Cultural Landscapes: Integrating Culture and Nature to Uplift Global Sustainability and Climate Action.- Branding the image of religious heritage in India.- Cultural Landscapes: Essence and application perspectives in Georgia.- Ayodhya (India): Placemaking and Transformation of Historic Urban Landscape.- Placemaking Approach in Revitalising Cultural Tourism in Temple Towns: Case of Melukote, Karnataka.- The Challenges of Integrated Conservation and Development in Historic Rural Landscapes; Case study: The Historic Villages of East Azerbaijan, Iran.- Chinese Cities as Sacred Landscapes: The case of the Capitals of the Ming Dynasty.- Protagonists for Making Sacred Places and Its Cultural Landscape: Sansa, Korean Buddhist Mountain Monasteries.- Placemaking of the Barotse Cultural Landscape, Zambia.- Pandemics, Travel, and the Search for Sustainability.- Post Covid-19 Strategies: Cloisters as Urban Oases and Heritage to Reconnect Memory.- Archaeological sites in Northern Japan: Interfacing landscape and sacred rituals.- Archaeological Landscapes of Religious Significance on the UNESCO World Heritage List from Turkey: Continuities, Discontinuities.- The Sustainability and Spatial Analysis of Rural Cultural Landscapes: The historic Village “Maymand” in Iran.- Reuse of unoccupied religious monuments for tourist accommodation: Santa Maria da Ínsua (North of Portugal).- Survival of Heritage from the Mangroves of Sundarbans to the Sattras of Majuli.- ‘Pūch’ as an institution for maintaining the cultural landscape of the Kullu Valley.    

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Rana P. B. Singh has been a professor of cultural landscapes and heritage studies in the Department of Geography, the Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He is the president of the Asian Cultural Landscape Association (ACLA), the chief coordinator of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) National Scientific Committee “Cultural Landscapes”, a contributing member of the ICOMOS-IFLA (the International Federation of Landscape Architects) International Scientific Committee “Cultural Landscapes”, an expert and voting member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee “Places of Religion and Rituals” (PRERICO), and the president (Asia) of the Reconnecting With Your Culture (RWYC). For more than four decades, he has been studying, lecturing and promoting cultural and sacred landscapes and pilgrimages in India, and also has done field studies in Japan, Italy, Sweden, Korea, and China, and delivered lectures in almost all parts of the world. His publications include 43 books and anthologies, and 340 research papers.   Olimpia Niglio is a professor of architectural restoration, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Italy. Since 2021 she is a permanent visiting professor at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. She is also Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. She was previously a professor at Hokkaido University, Japan, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia, and International School University of Ibagué, Colombia. She studied at the University of Naples “Federico II” where she also obtained her Ph.D., Executive Master’s degree at Business School Sole24ore and post-Ph.D. degree (Miur) in conservation of architectural heritage. She is the director of the EdA Esempi di Architettura International Research Center, the Vice President of ICOMOS PRERICO (International Committee Monuments and Sites), and the Vice President of the Asian Cultural Landscape Association (ACLA). Her publications include 9 books and more than 300 research papers in Italian and English.   Pravin S. Rana is an assistant professor in tourism management in the Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has teaching experience of more than 20 years and is specialized in religious tourism and pilgrimages. He is the secretary of the Asian Cultural Landscape Association (India). He has contributed essays in research series and handbooks published by Routledge (London), CABI International (Oxfordshire UK), and Springer Nature (Cham & New York, Singapore). He has published 3 books, including Pilgrimage Tourism: A Study of Varanasi Region (SRME Publishers, 2014) and Banaras Region, A Spiritual and Cultural Guide (Indica Books, 2020). He published 28 research papers. From August 2005 to July 2009, he served as the manager ofthe Children Programme at the World Literacy of Canada India Office. He has delivered seminars in Norway, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, and Korea. He is a member of Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage-International network (FUUH), Spain. 

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