The Happy Valley: A History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery - Brossura

Nicolson, Ken

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9888028103 ISBN 13: 9789888028108

Casa editrice: Hong Kong Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Hong Kong’s oldest Western cemetery garden is located in Happy Valley. This history and tour highlights the need for urgent action to conserve the built and natural heritage resources of this important cultural landscape. The author challenges the reader to reconsider the basic approach to heritage conservation adopted in Hong Kong where a false dichotomy persists between natural and built heritage conservation initiatives. The Hong Kong Cemetery provides an excellent example of a precious cultural landscape which is deteriorating because simplistic approaches to site management have failed to understand and protect the complex interrelationship between the natural (flora and fauna habitats) and built (monuments and memorials) heritage resources. The first three chapters introduce the cemetery garden concept as it evolved in early nineteenth-century Europe, and was eventually established in Hong Kong by the British. The second half of the book provides a self-guided tour of the cemetery highlighting its resources as well as explaining the main conservation problems and possible solutions to protect the cemetery.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ken Nicolson has been working as a landscape architect in Hong Kong since 1984. He is associate professor of the Architecture Conservation Programme in the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Hong Kong History / Landscape Architecture and Conservation

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hong Kong Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9888028103
• ISBN 13: 9789888028108
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 136