1st Edition

Cultural Heritage on the Urban Peripheries Towards New Research Paradigms

330 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and build upon that cultural heritage. Expert-led and richly illustrated throughout, the text addresses issues such as the management and development of the... Read more

Introduction

María García-Hernández and Maria Gravari-Barbas

 

Part 1. Heritage of the Peripheries: Management and Development

 

1. Industrial Heritage Valorisation in the Urban Periphery: A Conscious and Coherent Process? The Leuven Experience (Belgium)

Dominique Vanneste, Dylan Van den Bergh and Thérèse Steenberghen

 

2. Assessment of Approaches to the Conservation of Large Housing Estates in Germany

Yimei Zhang

 

3. The Vulnerable Heritagisation of Large Housing Estates: Two Examples in Aubervilliers (Paris) 

Géraldine Djament

 

4. Digital Storytelling for the Conservation of Cultural Memory: The Case of the Darsena of Ravenna 

Francesca Fabbri and Alessandro Iannucci

 

5. The Challenge of Safeguarding the Industrial Heritage of the Paris Metropolitan Area: Between Preservation, Oblivion and Demolition 

Maïa Ghattas and Maria Gravari-Barbas

 

6. Exclusion by Heritage: Heritage Conservation and Tourism as Agents of Spatial Cleansing in Mehrauli, Delhi

Karan Saharya

 

7. Ecomuseum in the Urban Periphery: Modernity, Tourism and Heritage in the Village of Zhenshan 

Xiaoyan Zhang

 

Part 2. Heritage of the Urban Peripheries: Community Involvement

 

8. The Heritage Turn of Citizens' Participation at the Urban Periphery of Madrid (Spain): The Case of Carabanchel

Juan Carlos Revilla, Juan-Ángel Martín-Fernández, Ana Yáñez Vega and María García-Hernandez

 

9. Social Appropriation of Cultural Heritage in the Metropolitan Periphery of Madrid: The NE(T)GO project (Coslada, Madrid)

Manuel de la Calle-Vaquero, Maria García-Hernández, Beatriz Martínez Parra, Joaquín Ibáñez Montoya, Rosa de la Fuente-Fernández, María Luisa Martínez-Muneta and Ainhoa Díez de Pablo

 

10. Local Community Involvement in the Protection of the Rural/Periphery Heritage in the Urban Context: Case Study of Participatory City Museum in Chorzów (Silesia, Poland)

Kinga Anna Gajda and Piotr Michałowski

 

11. Struggling for the Right to the City Among Ruins: The Case of 'Plato's Academy' Neighbourhood in Athens

Maritina Iliadi

 

12. Beyond ville and cité: The Trajectories of the Community-based Revitalization of the Peripheral Heritage of Nowa Huta (Poland)

Magdalena Banaszkiewicz

 

13. "We Don't Do Digital, We Dig It All": Experimenting with 'Data Civics' Methods to Support Urban Development in Granton, Edinburgh

Vassilis Galanos, Kath Bassett, Addie McGowan, Liz McFall, James Henderson and Oliver Escobar

 

Part 3. The Ethnic and Cosmopolitan Heritage of the Urban Peripheries

 

14. Exploring Intersectoral Peripheralities: Prospects for the Heritage and Tourism Development of an Ethnic Suburban Architecture (Chinagora, Paris)

Chensi Shen and Maria Gravari-Barbas

 

15. "For Mother Earth!" Bolivian Celebrations in New York City: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Locality

Mia Hovi

 

16. Urban Rhapsodies: Cultural Heritage and Education, New Engines for the Regeneration of the Peripheries in Rome and Turin (Italy)

Mariachiara Guerra

 

17. Cultural Festival Heritage, Diaspora Communities and Urban Peripheries: Durgāpūjā in Finland 

Xenia Zeiler

Biography

María García-Hernández is Professor of Human Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid. She directs the research group "Tourism, Heritage and Development".

Maria Gravari-Barbas is an architect and geographer. She is Professor at the Institute for Research and High Studies of Tourism (IREST) and Director of the Interdisciplinary Team for Tourism Research (EIREST), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on the contemporary production of urban spaces in relation to tourism, architecture, heritage and festive phenomena.