The Nexus between Cultural Heritage Management and the Mental Health of Urban Communities

Dirk H. R. Spennemann
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Dirk H. R. Spennemann: School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, P.O. Box 789, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-10

Abstract: In authorized cultural heritage management discourse, heritage sites can be included in local government heritage registers if their aesthetic, scientific, historic or social values are deemed significant. While notionally providing protection from major alterations and destruction for the benefit of future generations, such listings primarily serve the present generation whose values they reflect. This paper considers the role that cultural heritage places play in terms of community identity and their contribution to a sense of place, to place attachment and, by implication, to personal and community mental health.

Keywords: cultural heritage policy; cultural heritage management; community health; mental health; urban sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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