Inventory of Historic Places: A Systematic Method for Their Identification, Evaluation and Determining Significance (Part Ii: Case Studies)

Abstract

Systematic inventory and recording of historic places is an effective tool for facilitating good management and understanding of historic towns, cities and areas. This paper presents a method developed for inventory recording in the context of countries that are under resourced, and thus do not have effective management procedures for definition, protection and preservation of their heritage properties. The paper focuses on an inventory format designed as an outcome of a research undertaken in Sindh, the southeastern region of Pakistan, taking its historic towns as case studies. The research outcomes are presented in two parts: in the first part the inventory form was discussed in detail. This second part presents a comparison of two case study towns, having very different situations in terms of scale and management structure, where the developed method of heritage inventory was applied for documentation. Key words: Heritage inventory, significance of historic places, Karachi, Shikarpoor, Sindh.