In May, Silverstone was awarded a Lottery grant of almost £500,000 as part of a wider £9m application for the development of a heritage project on the site.
Skeleton tracking using Kinect data allows the appearance of participants to be augmented, and together these facilitate the development of cultural heritage applications.
By analyzing the growth and development of global heritage sites over the past 10 years, the study will identify the full range of long-term socioeconomic impacts of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, evaluating and producing strategies for truly sustainable heritage conservation in the coming decades.
However, research is urgently needed in the development of a heritage-specific technology that can sustain and display heritage science information; that is, historical data, condition, environmental parameters, risks to the materials and their forecasts.
The role and significance of development within heritage conservation areas are also examined.
Differences in the attitudes, willingness to become involved, and perception of conservation and economic development of cultural built heritage assets were found to correspond with age and membership status.
In a sustainable development perspective, the notion of heritage is meant as "collective memory or historical legacy": the conservation action requires to ensure its transmission to future generations.
Another typical Vancouver issue that plagues this young and growing city: preservation of heritage spots vs. high-rise condo development. .
Nevertheless, lack of guidelines about appropriate policies suggest that current policies are not effective in tackling the ongoing multi-layered threats of urban development on cultural heritage conservation.
"The New York Life Insurance Company Building has a special character and special historical and aesthetic interest and value as part of the development, heritage and cultural characteristics of New York City," the commission report concluded.
But the building — designed by John C. Westervelt, the house architect for the Childs chain — was found by the landmarks commission to have "a special character and a special historical and aesthetic interest and value as part of the development, heritage and cultural characteristics of New York City," meeting its criterion for landmark status.
