2016 Volume 81 Issue 727 Pages 1981-1990
This paper looks into an example of heritage conservation-based urban regeneration — the Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building in order to examine how authenticity in contemporary urban place-making is molded. As an integrated framework, it explores the 1994 Nara Document on Authenticity and adopts its authenticity conditions (form & design, materials & substance, use & function, tradition & techniques, location & setting, and spirit & feeling) to develop an analytical framework. It then identifies the force of socio-economic and political considerations that led to the place-shaping, and heritagization of Tokyo Station and determined its conservation rationale. Using the created analytical framework, the work then investigates how authenticity is molded out of heritage conservation-based urban regeneration.
