Abstract
Chapter 2 presents the heritage industry as a link to a sense of the decline of modern society, aligning the growing interest towards industrial heritage during the period of the rise of neoliberalism. Accordingly, it emphasises on the shifts in attitude towards the historic environment and community reactions against the process of urban transformation as well as on the development of heritage policies in Australia. However, the chapter also draws attention to the convergence of industrial heritage sites into mixed-use developments and festival marketplaces, changing the characteristics of neighbourhoods, and the conservation of historic buildings that are carried out for tourist consumption. It highlights the reasons why former industrial and warehouse structures have been valorised and have become commercial products of real estate markets.
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ICOMOS is an international and non-governmental organisation. Its objectives are to protect sites and historical monuments, to support and to direct each kind of research about conservation and assessment techniques, theories and methods (http://www.icomos.org).
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This new mode of capital accumulation has been discussed in Chap. 4, with an argument involving shifting from industry and a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy.
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“The term ‘cultural property’ shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership:
(a) movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or artistic interest; works of art; manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest; as well as scientific collections and important collections of books or archives or of reproductions of the property defined above;
(b) buildings whose main and effective purpose is to preserve or exhibit the movable cultural property defined in sub-paragraph (a) such as museums, large libraries and depositories of archives, and refuges intended to shelter, in the event of armed conflict (Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property 1954).
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Kelly’s Bush is a small remnant area of bushland in Hunters Hill, saved from the development scheme (A.V. Jennings Company) in 1971 (Davison 1991, p. 21).
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For the purposes of the Australian Heritage Commission Act of 1975, “the national estate consists of places, being components of the natural or the cultural environment of Australia, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the present community” (Flood 1993).
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Due to its hegemonic impacts on political, economic and social practices, David Harvey has referred to neoliberalism as creative destruction (Harvey 2007).
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The state and Sydney City Council degraded heritage buildings in the CBD and on the waterfront by retaining only their facades during the building boom (Mosler 2011).
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Kaya, E. (2020). Love or Hate—Preserve or Demolish: What to Do with Industrial Heritage?. In: Transformation of Sydney’s Industrial Historic Waterfront. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9668-7_2
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