Drawing the everyday heritage of streets: North Street and Castle Street in Belfast

The scope of this thesis was to highlight the multiple factors that make streets places full of meaning, and significance for those who use them, arguing a wider understanding of heritage can inform design practices to create better places for the future.

Employing the concept of everyday heritage, the study took the form of a methodology offering place-makers and heritage officials a guide on how to understand the complexity and multi-layered relationship between the tangible and intangible elements of streets. Combining positivist and interpretive approaches, this thesis drew from the fields of architecture, conservation, urban design, urban morphology, history, anthropology and human geography.