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

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.With a focus on the powerful relations that form between people and places, this book uses people-centred methodologies to examine the ways in which emotional attachments can be accessed, researched, interpreted and documented as part of heritage scholarship and management. In so doing, the chapters bring together a series of diverse case studies from both established and early-career scholars in Australia, China, Europe, North America and Central America. It demonstrates how a range of different research methods drawn primarily from disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences can be used to better understand the cultural values of heritage places.

These case studies outline methods that have been successfully