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Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse and the Community Brief: A Typology of Conservation Outcomes in London

  • Fiona Nepravishta

Existing heritage frameworks exhibit a systematic bias toward pre-industrial typologies, marginalizing industrial built fabric within formal conservation processes. This research conceptualizes the “community brief” as a mechanism for operationalizing industrial significance. Through cross-case comparison of four London sites: Oxo Tower Wharf, Tate Modern, Coal Drops Yard, and Battersea Power Station, the study proposes a three-axis framework of structuraltechnological, social-memory, and adaptive-reuse values, and a typology of four brief formations: ownership-led, institutional, participatory, and advocacy-led. Findings indicate that conservation outcomes are contingent on which value registers enter the brief and on the timing of community agency's binding authority.

  • Keywords:
  • Industrial heritage,
  • Adaptive reuse,
  • Community brief,
  • Heritage value,
  • Conservation outcomes,
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Fiona Nepravishta

University College London, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0009-0002-3070-2321

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Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse and the Community Brief: A Typology of Conservation Outcomes in London

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Fiona Nepravishta

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Inglese

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10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.109

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2026

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ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion

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14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November

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Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas

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Firenze University Press

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