Built heritage management systems: Australia and Germany compared

A recent, unreported, focus group of international heritage practitioners from
academia, urban planning, land use management and urban design, found
interesting similarities and differences between Australian and German cultural
built heritage (CBH) management systems. For validation, a literature review
provided a methodological framework and is reported in this paper. Its objective
is to confirm the principal themes elicited by the initial work, being: assessment
standards, transferable development rights, heritage conservation incentives
and private property rights’ management thereby contributing enhanced clarity
to the broader relationship between built heritage and stakeholder roles in
heritage conservation. This paper is a precursor of more detailed planned
empirical, in-country study seeking further insights into stakeholder interests
and value systems based on a recent developed analytical approach known as
Cultural Heritage Discourse (CHD). It is recognised that this empirical component
is a limiting feature of the current research but anticipated as inevitable due to
the preliminary stage of enquiry