"The dark side, of course, is consumption," said Francesco Bandarin, assistant director-general of Unesco and head of its World Heritage Center, speaking of the consumerism that so often surrounds heritage sites.
Generally, issues surrounding cultural heritage are seen very separately from issues of contemporary art making.
Indeed, the strongest efforts have to be made to maintain the architectural identity and its harmony with the surrounding cultural heritage.
The best way to get a feel for Flagstaff's past is to walk the streets of its Historic Railroad District, a five-square-block collection of old brick storefronts, cafes and hotels surrounding lively Heritage Square.
The Kamprad family (one of the richest in the world), is very focused on key values surrounding quality, heritage, market differences, customer loyalty, and sustainability.
It, too, is on its last legs; Rio Tinto announced it would not expand the mine through an underground extension in 2015, leaving the company with the daunting task of securing more than 30m tonnes of finely powdered radioactive mine wastes and somehow returning the site to a state in which it can be reincorporated into the surrounding Kakadu world heritage area.
The issues surrounding our digital heritage have become so complex that intense academic, institutional and corporate efforts are under way to develop means of preserving digitally born data and having a chance of understanding it decades and centuries from now.
Its concerns are the latest chapter in the long saga surrounding the English Heritage-backed project, and follow a government decision two years ago to scrap on cost grounds a highly ambitious £65m scheme to build a tunnel to reroute traffic to protect the World Heritage site.
Speculation surrounding Britney's cyborg heritage begins.
The highway upgrade is intended to lift the surrounding economy, tourism and heritage in the southwest of England.
