The Contemporary Presidency : A Lasting Legacy? Presidents, National Monuments, and the Antiquities Act

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Kelso
Keyword(s):  
National Monuments

scholarly journals Utilizing Urban Geospatial Data to Understand Heritage Attractiveness in Amsterdam

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Sevim Sezi Karayazi ◽  
Gamze Dane ◽  
Bauke de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Geographically Weighted Regression ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Dbscan Algorithm ◽  
National Monuments ◽  
Combined Data

Touristic cities are home to historical landmarks and irreplaceable urban heritages. Although tourism brings financial advantages, mass tourism creates pressure on historical cities. Therefore, “attractiveness” is one of the key elements to explain tourism dynamics. User-contributed and geospatial data provide an evidence-based understanding of people’s responses to these places. In this article, the combination of multisource information about national monuments, supporting products (i.e., attractions, museums), and geospatial data are utilized to understand attractive heritage locations and the factors that make them attractive. We retrieved geotagged photographs from the Flickr API, then employed density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to find clusters. Then combined the clusters with Amsterdam heritage data and processed the combined data with ordinary least square (OLS) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) to identify heritage attractiveness and relevance of supporting products in Amsterdam. The results show that understanding the attractiveness of heritages according to their types and supporting products in the surrounding built environment provides insights to increase unattractive heritages’ attractiveness. That may help diminish the burden of tourism in overly visited locations. The combination of less attractive heritage with strong influential supporting products could pave the way for more sustainable tourism in Amsterdam.

Natural wonders and national monuments: a meditation upon the fate of The Tolmen

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (259) ◽  
pp. 200-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Evans
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
National Monuments ◽  
The 19Th Century

A key place in the 19th-century view of the British prehistoric landscape was taken by an ancient wonder which was was not a human or artificial device at all. An account of this anomaly is called for.

The role of the Environment and Heritage Service in Northern Ireland archaeology

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (292) ◽  
pp. 493-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Brannon
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
National Monuments ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
The Church ◽  
Regulatory Management

The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS), an agency within the Department of the Environment, aims ‘to protect and conserve the natural and built environment and to promote its appreciation for the benefit of present and future generations‘ (EHS 1996: 7). EHS has a central statutory, regulatory, management and participatory role in Northern Ireland archaeology.Official care of archaeological sites and monuments in what is now Northern Ireland goes back to the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the Irish Church Act of 1869. This made provision for the upkeep of certain irnportant ecclesiastical sites; 137 ruined churches and crosses were vested in the Commissioners of Public Works, to be maintained as National Monuments. Of these, 17 were in what was to become Northern Ireland. This precedent was noted in Parliamentary debates on the Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882, which applied to Britain and Ireland, and of the 18 Irish sites, 3 were in what is now Northern Ireland. The Ancient Monuments Protection (Ireland) Act 1892 increased the scope for protection of sites in the earlier schedule.

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