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Colombo, Sri Lanka’s commercial capital is a forceful creation of Europeancolonialists who occupied the island for over four centuries. Its urbanstructure displays the social fragmentation sought by the rulers. Colomboelaborates an extraordinary process of city-making, stratified with its Dutch-origin, British-reshaping, and post-colonial adaptation. Proclaiming such acontested past as an inheritance requires an inclusive heritage interpretation.The recent renovation of monumental buildings for potential market valuesand demolishing minor architecture do not display such a heritageinterpretation. This, placing undue attention on a selected social group, isfound to be further emptying the compartmentalized city. The exclusion ofsome sub-societies also cost possible stewardship to urban heritage. Havingobserved the non-sustainability of current heritage-interpretation practisedin Colombo, we searched for alternative means to unify societies in time-space thus sustaining the diversity of urban spaces. Our empirical studieshave established the need to integrate the inherent cultural values of thecolonial-built urban fabric in heritage interpretation. The results of vibrantheritage-inte

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Author

* Professor Dr. Harsha Munasinghe

Publisher

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429053559

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, History, Sociology