Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 102069

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Description This unit explores the values behind, and practicalities regarding, heritage and planning, from federal and state perspectives in Australia. With a specific focus on Sydney, the unit explores how planning applications, within the urban development sphere, impact upon heritage assets, and how these impacts are mitigated through heritage planning legislation. The unit asks students to step into the shoes of heritage planning professionals and to identify and research a heritage asset that is to be impacted by a potential planning proposal and then to design an appropriate mitigation response within the bounds of relevant heritage legislation.

School Social Sciences

Discipline Architecture and Urban Environment, Not Elsewhere Classified.

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 2 10cp

Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject

Equivalent Subjects ARCH 3001 - Introduction to Urban Design

Restrictions

Students must be enrolled in a postgraduate program.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Summarise different conceptions of heritage.
2. Analyse the values that state and local government authorities and local communities place on heritage.
3. Apply heritage legislation to real world planning issues.
4. Access heritage planning research resources and apply these to authentic planning issues
5. Construct an appropriate mitigation response to heritage planning issues.
6. Critically evaluate the heritage planning process.

Subject Content

What is heritage? The sociological approach.
Why and how do governments and communities value heritage?
Federal and state heritage legislation as it relates to planning.
The role of local government.
Identifying and process of listing significance of a site.
The extant heritage planning recourses in NSW and how to access them.
The heritage planning mitigation process.
Indigenous heritage and planning issues.
Identifying heritage assets and planning impacts and designing an appropriate response case study.
The adaptive reuse of heritage for tourism.
Comparative heritage planning.
Problematizing heritage planning. Critiquing the heritage planning discourse.