Community-led initiatives for the rehabilitation and management of vernacular settlements in Oman:a phenomenon in the making

作     者：Benkari Naima 

作者机构：Department of Civil and Architectural EngineeringSultan Qaboos UniversityP.O.Box 33P.C.123Al-KhoudhMuscatSultanate of Oman 

出 版 物：《Built Heritage》 (建成遗产（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第5卷第3期

页      面：121-140页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 083302[工学-城乡规划与设计] 

基　　金：This study is part of a research project:CR/ENG/CAED/18/04 Sultan Qaboos University 

主　　题：Adaptive reuse Community involvement in heritage management Gulf cooperation council(GCC)states Heritage houses Heritage tourism Post-oil economy Sustainable development Vernacular settlements 

摘      要：Once abandoned for more than three decades,vernacular settlements in Oman are now being progressively reinvested in to foster the country’s heritage tourism *** present research focuses on the emerging phenomenon of community-led initiatives for vernacular heritage rehabilitation and adaptive reuse in *** an examination of three case studies,its aim is to describe this process and its modes of action and discuss its efects on vernacular settlement transformations.A mixed research methodology was designed to include(A)analyses of relevant primary and secondary data,(B)documented onsite observations,(C)interviews with local community representatives and key players in the operations of rehabilitation,and(D)extractions and analyses of quantitative data from a hotel booking *** research sheds light on unsuspected interrelations within and between the projects being implemented in these settlements and their operating *** reveals the focal role of a local community in a kind of‘bottom-up’management of its built heritage,coupled with a‘horizontal cooperation’between the three initiatives studied in this ***,it shows that a heavily centralised and top-down policy for the feld of heritage conservation and management is among the main obstacles that hinder such ***,community-led operations of vernacular heritage rehabilitation are being undertaken under insufcient regulations in terms of land use,building restoration and adaptive *** this context,the paper discusses some of the serious threats and concerns faced by such initiatives and proposes actionable solutions to mitigate these hindrances.