Professor Ken Taylor
BA (Geography, Sheffield); Dip Town Planning ( Manchester); Master of Landscape Architecture (Melbourne); PhD (Deakin).
Honorary Professor, Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies, School of Archaeology and Anthropology. Emeritus Professor Landscape Architecture, University of Canberra. Visiting Professor, Silpakorn University, Bangkok.
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Research interests
Cultural heritage management: theory and practice
Cultural heritage as process and changing perspectives in the heritagisation process internationally and with particular relevance to SE Asia and China
Cultural landscape: meanings, values and management with particular reference to ordinary/everyday places
Historic Urban Landscape (HUL): theory and practice
Reading the landscape
World Heritage challenges and politics
Biography
Professor Ken Taylor AM started his career in the UK working in local government as a town planner. He gained significant and influential experience at the City Planning Department Manchester particularly working on an open space policy based on remnant river valleys and canals with proposls for their reclamation. This sparked an interest in landscape planning and landscape architecture and he shifted to teaching in these fields at the then Manchester Polytechnic. In 1975 he took a position of S/L in landscape architecture at the then Canberra CAE (Univ of Canberra) and later was appointed to a personal chair in landscape architecture. His interests in historic cultural landscapes, their meanings, values and heritage potenial was sparked in the late 1970s working on a study of the historic landscapes of Lanyon and Lambrigg in the ACT for the National Trust. It also drew on his cultural geography first degree and the concept of reading the landscape, During the 1980s and 1990s he developed ideas on cultural landscape theory and practice and associated heriatge values weaving them into his teaching and research leading to his being Co-Director of the Cultural Heritage Research Center at the University of Canberra with Professor Colin Pearson. From the late 1980s he has published nationally and internationally with increasing focus on SE Asia and China in the context of changing global perpsectives on cultural heritage mangement and cultural landscapes. He has undertaken work with agencies such as UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and ICOMOS. From 2006 until late 2017 he was Associate Editor for 'Landscape Research' journal. He is an Associate member of Rutgers University Graduate Faculty He joined The ANU in 2003 where he has continued to publish, supervise PhD students and travel regularly to Asia. At Silpakorn University Bangkok he has taught courses in Management of Historic Places and Cultural Landscpes since 2002 on the International Program in Architectural Heritage Management & Tourism and supervises PhD students.
Publications
- Taylor, K 2023, 'Concerning Intangible Associations and Authenticity in Cultural Landscapes', in Silva, K. D., Taylor, K., Jones, D. S. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific, Routledge, UK and USA, pp. 49-59.
- Taylor, K 2023, 'The Intellectual Context of the Cultural Landscape Construct', in Silva, K. D., Taylor, K., Jones, D. S. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific, Routledge, UK and USA, p. 18.
- Taylor, K, Silva, K & Jones, D 2023, 'Introduction. Managing Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific', in Silva, K. D., Taylor, K., Jones, D. S. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific, Routledge, UK and USA, pp. 1-28.
- Silva, K, Taylor, K & Jones, D, eds, 2023, The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific, Routledge, UK and USA.
- Taylor, K 2023, 'Historic Urban Landscape Paradigm �A Tool for Balancing Values and Changes in the Urban Conservation Process', LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FRONTIERS, vol. Volume 11 , no. 3, pp. 96-104.
- Taylor, K & Verdini, G 2022, Management Planning for Cultural Heritage. Places and Their Significance, Routledge, Abingdon UK and New York USA.
- Jones, D & Taylor, K 2021, 'Of Living Country and Living Cultural Heritage', in Jennifer Adese, Robert Alexander Innes (ed.), Indigenous Celebrity; Entanglements with Fame, University of Manitoba, Canada.
- Xu, Q, Taylor, K & Han, F 2020, 'Recognising values of China's scenic and historic interest areas as world heritage cultural landscapes: Lushan case study', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. online.
- Taylor, K 2020, 'Cultural sustainability and notions of cultural heritage: a review with some reference to an Asian perspective', in Fausto O. Sarmiento and Larry M. Frolich (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, United Kingdom, pp. v - 428.
- Taylor, K 2020, 'The Ideology of the Urban Cultural Landscape Construct', in Kapila D Silva (ed.), The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes of the Asia-Pacific, Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom, pp. 48-66.
- Zhang, R & Taylor, K 2019, 'Cultural landscape meanings. The case of West Lake, Hangzhou, China [IN PRESS]', Landscape Research, vol. Online, pp. 1-15.
- Taylor, K 2019, 'New Lives, New Landscapes - Landscape, Heritage and Rural Revitalisation: Whose Cultural Values?', Built Heritage, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 50-63.
- Taylor, K 2019, 'Cultural Heritage Management: International Practice and Regional Applications', in Claire Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin.
- Taylor, K & Sharma Saxena, M 2019, 'City as Evolving Process: Case for the Historic Urban Landscape Approach for Canberra', in Ana Pereira Roders and Francesca Bandarin (ed.), Reshaping Urban Conservation, Springer, Singapore, pp. 187-206.
- Taylor, K & Xu, Q 2019, 'Challenging landscape Eurocentrism: an Asian perspective', in Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton and Mick Atha (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 311-328pp.
- Ramsay, J & Taylor, K, eds, 2018, 21st Century Challenges Facing Cultural Landscapes, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, England.
- Taylor, K 2018, 'Connecting Concepts of Cultural Landscape and Historic Urban Landscape: The Politics of Similarity', Built Heritage, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 53-67.
- Taylor, K 2017, 'Cultural landscape meanings and values', in A. Van Den Brink, D. Bruns, H. Tobi and S. Bell (ed.), Research in Landscape Architecture: Methods and Methodology, Routledge, New York, pp. 211-234pp.
- Taylor, K 2017, 'The Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL): a paradigm shift', in J. H. Stubbs and R. G. Thomson (ed.), ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION IN ASIA, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 266-268pp.
- Taylor, K 2017, 'Landscape, Culture and Heritage. Changing Perspectives in an Asian Context'. http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30102152
- Taylor, K 2016, 'The Historic Urban Landscape paradigm and cities as cultural landscapes. Challenging orthodoxy in urban conservation', Landscape Research, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 471-480.
- Pongpandecha, N & Taylor, K 2015, 'Lua People: Traditions, beliefs and sacred natural sites in Northern Thailand', in Bas Verschuuren and Naoya Furuta (ed.), Asian Sacred Natural Sites: Philosophy and practice in protected areas and conservation, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 259-270.
- Taylor, K, St Clair, A & Mitchell, N 2015, 'Introduction: Cultural Landscapes: Twenty-First Century Conservation Opportunities and Challenges', in Ken Taylor, Archer St Clair, and Nora J. Mitchell (ed.), Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions, Taylor and Francis, United States of America, pp. 1-25pp.
- Taylor, K 2015, 'Cities as Cultural Landscapes', in Francesco Bandarin and Ron van Oers (ed.), Reconnecting the City: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage, Wiley Blackwell, United Kingdom, pp. 179-202pp.
- van Oers, R & Taylor, K 2015, 'Asian Theoretical and Best-Practice Framework for the Historic Urban Landscape: Heritage for the Future', in Ken Taylor, Archer St Clair, and Nora J. Mitchell (ed.), Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions, Taylor and Francis, United States of America, pp. 198-215pp.
- Taylor, K, St Clair, A & Mitchell, N, eds, 2015, Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions, Taylor and Francis, United States of America.
- Taylor, K & Francis, K 2014, 'Culture-Nature dilemmas - confronting the challenge of the integration of culture and nature', in Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor (ed.), New Cultural Landscapes, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 24-40.
- Roe, M & Taylor, K 2014, 'New Cultural Landscapes - emerging issues, context and themes', in Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor (ed.), New Cultural Landscapes, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 1-23.
- Cook, I & Taylor, K 2013, A Contemporary Guide to Cultural Mapping: An ASEAN-Australia Perspective, Public Outreach and Civil Society Division, the Asean Secretariat, Jakarta.
- Taylor, K 2013, 'Cultural Mapping: Intangible Values and Engaging with Communities with Some Reference to Asia', Historic Environment, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 50-61.
- Taylor, K 2013, 'The challenges of the cultural landscape construct and associated intangible values in an Asian context', in Silva, K.P and Chapagain, N.K (ed.), Asian heritage management: contexts, concerns, and prospects, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon UK, pp. 189-211.
- Taylor, K & Lennon, J 2012, 'Prospects and Challenges for Cultural Landscape Management', in Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon (ed.), Managing Cultural Landscapes, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Great Britain, pp. 345-364.
- Taylor, K & Lennon, J 2012, 'Introduction: Leaping the Fence', in Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon (ed.), Managing Cultural Landscapes, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Great Britain, pp. 1-17.
- Taylor, K 2012, 'Heritage Challenges in Asian Urban Cultural Landscape Settings', in P Daley and T Winter (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK, pp. 266-280.
- Taylor, K 2012, 'Landscape and Meaning: Context for a global discourse on cultural landscape values', in Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon (ed.), Managing Cultural Landscapes, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Great Britain, pp. 21-44.
- Taylor, K & Lennon, J, eds, 2012, Managing Cultural Landscapes, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Great Britain.
- Taylor, K & Lennon, J 2011, 'Cultural Landscapes: a bridge between culture and nature?', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 537-554.
- Taylor, K 2010, 'International Practice and Regional Applications in Cultural Heritage Management: Whose Values?', World Universities Congress, ed. Ali Akdemir & Oktay Koç, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, pp. 1340-1353.
- Taylor, K 2010, '"Not like any other city in the world": The continuing resonance of the archives of town planning in community dialogue about the design of Australia's national capital', Comma, vol. 2010, no. 1, pp. 71-82.
- Taylor, K 2010, 'Cultural Mapping: A Tool for Historiographers', Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asis (IAHA 2010), National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1-12.
- Taylor, K 2009, 'Canberra as a Candidate for National Heritage Listing', Canberra Historical Journal, vol. 63, pp. 38-46.
- Taylor, K 2009, 'Cultural landscapes and Asia: Reconciling International and Southeast Asian Regional Values', Landscape Research, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 7-13.
- Taylor, K 2008, 'Canberra and the winds of change. Can the city remain a city not like any other', Public Versus Private Planning: Themes, Trends and Tensions, University Press Florida, Chicago, USA, pp. 120-134.
- Taylor, K 2008, 'Intangible Heritage: The Mirror of Cultural Diversity', International Conference of National Trusts 2007, ed. AshRani Mathur, INTACH, New Delhi, India, pp. 509-518.
- Taylor, K 2008, 'Landscape and Memory: cultural landscapes, intangible values and some thoughts on Asia', Communities and Memories: a global perspective, Australia Memory of the World programme, online, pp. 1-6.
- Taylor, K 2007, 'Cultural Landscapes and Asian Values: Negotiating a Transition from an International to an Asian Regional Framework', Chinese Landscape Architecture, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 4-9.
- Taylor, K & Altenburg, K 2006, 'Cultural Landscapes in Asia-Pacific: Potential for Filling World Heritage Gaps', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 267-282.
- Taylor, K & Altenburg, K 2006, 'Genius of the Place: (re)presenting cultural landscapes, World Heritage listing, and intangible values. Making spaces into places in Asia.', in Thoms Schaaf and Cathy Lee (ed.), International Symposium on Conserving Cultural and Biological Diversity: the Role of Sacred Natural Sites and Cultural Landscapes; Aichi, Japan; 2005, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, pp. 216-33.
- Taylor, K 2006, Canberra: City in the Landscape, Halstead Press, Canberra.
- Taylor, K 2004, 'Cultural Heritage Management: A Possible Role for Charters and Principles in Asia', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 417-433.
