Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously reinterpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city’s identification but also for its cultural and economic innovation.
This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage –tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage. The ‘regimes of urban heritage’ approach retraces 200 years of the development of European urban heritage to understand how it has become so significant and how it could integrate practically every area of urban existence.
The novelty of the book is the interpretation of this development as a process of successive and integrating regimes, which are examined through the changing urban heritage agency and discourse. Through the examples of European cities and towns, such as Belgrade, Budapest, Gdansk, Krakow, Ljubljana, Subotica, Szentendre, Vienna, but also Edinburgh, Nordic cities and Rome, these changes reveal their inner complexities and become comparable in an interdisciplinary analysis. Further, a particular aspect of the history of these cities is revealed through the development of their own urban heritage.
The book is primarily aimed at academics, researchers and postgraduate students of cultural and economic geography, cultural history, culture and heritage management, modern and contemporary history as well as urban history, planning and sociology.
Edited by:
Gábor Sonkoly
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032388328
ISBN 10: 1032388323
Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 09 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements PART I Introduction 1 Regimes of Urban Heritage in Europe GABOR SONKOLY 2 Kraków: The “Heritage City” Model JACEK PURCHLA PART II Preserving Urban Monuments 3 The Making of a 21st-Century Castle, Edinburgh 1745–2018 ROBERT J. MORRIS 4 Heritagisation of Art Nouveau Urban Architecture: The Synagogue of Subotica LILLA ZAMBO Part III Urban Landscapes 5 Design History of 19th-Century Urban Public Parks: Relevance of Historic Parks in Urban Landscape Heritage KINGA SZILAGYI, ANA KUČAN AND RICHARD STILES 6 The Lure of Timeless Urban Landscapes: Built and Pictorial Heritage at Szentendre PETER ERDŐSI PART IV Urban Heritage as Innovation 7 Nordic Harmonisation of (Urban) World Heritage and the Changing Regimes of Heritage TANJA VAHTIKARI 8 Urban Heritage Regimes From a Blind Spot: Mapping Conservation Dynamics at the Margins of Rome Historic Centre LUCIA BORDONE PART V Experiencing Dark Urban Heritage 9 Restoring Overwritten Places: The German Past of Danzig/Gdańsk in Contemporary Polish Prose NOEMI KERTESZ 10 Longing for the Unwanted: Legacies of Socialism and Urban Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Belgrade JOVANA JANINOVIC Index
Gábor Sonkoly is Director of the Doctoral School of History, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.
