Lui Tam

Cardiff University | CU · School of Architecture

This article discusses issues related to sustainable heritage management in China and problematises two dichotomies in heritage practices and research: the ‘Eastern/Western’ approaches and the tangible–intangible divide. It addresses these issues by examining the dramatic ‘make-over’ project of Guangrenwang Temple in Shanxi Province, China. The ‘ma...

The article examines Wutopia Lab’s transformation of the Water Tower Home ( shuita zhijia , also know as ‘House on the House’), a top-floor unit of a residential building converted from a water tower located in a Bulinli lilong neighbourhood in Shanghai. In 2015, the top-floor unit was transformed into a three-bedroom apartment, which was featured...

Digitisation for the purposes of recording cultural heritage and its condition is conventionally associated with the task of documentation for conservation. Occasionally emergency recording will anticipate the potential imminent destruction of heritage at risk. By contrast here, although the heritage status of the site whilst proposed in the 1990s,...

This is a report based on research on the development and social history of part of the Upper Dulais Valley in South Wales. It charts the period of developing the coal mining industry in the area to post-industrialisation from the mid-1960s. It was produced to support an understanding of place and context in the early stages of a regeneration proje...

The southeast part of Shanxi Province in China is a region with the highest concentration of early timber structures in the country, among which a majority are located in rural and semi-rural religious spaces. Social changes regarding rural population, religious demography as well as the 'heritagisation' process of these places of worship have pres...

This chapter discusses a case of a heated public debate on heritage conservation that revealed a power asymmetry in heritage conservation among various actors. It focuses on the revitalization of the Zhizhu Temple in Beijing, which suffered from years of neglect since its secularization in 1949. A company leased the temple in 2007 and started renov...

This dissertation aims to provide a critical analysis on the topic of sustainable heritage tourism and its role in the sustainable development of the local communities with a case study of the World Heritage town of Luang Prabang, Lao PDR. The study is conducted through examining the current situation of heritage interpretation, sustainable heritag...