Urban Authenticity and Heritage Creating Images and Contesting Identities in European Cities

Introduction Christoph Bernhardt, Daniel Hadwiger, and Achim Saupe Chapter 1: Historicising urban authenticity. Shifting urban imaginaries and their societal authentification Achim Saupe Part I: Approaches Chapter 2: Urban Authenticity: A Place for Felt Experiences? Rebecca Madgin Chapter 3: Urban authenticity and multiple temporalities: reconfiguring urban planning, heritage and memory work in the late 20th century Elke Seefried Chapter 4: Urban authenticity as an experiential relationship with the past: negotiating multiple heritages and authenticities in postwar Finnish cities Tanja Vahtikari Chapter 5: Complex regimes of authenticity: reflections on heritage in Ottoman and post□Ottoman cities Nora Lafi Part II: Citizens’ initiatives and the politics of authenticity Chapter 6: The newcomers’ experience. Environment and artefacts in the authentification process of Poland’s former German territory Małgorzata Praczyk Chapter 7: Space for modernity? Urban planning and civic protest in Nuremberg’s Old Town in the 1950s and 1990s Julia Ziegler Chapter 8: The obscurantism of history junk diggers: grassroots activism and heritage preservation in Leningrad during perestroika Margarita Pavlova Chapter 9: The creation of a “green” Szczecin.Visualisation as an authentification strategy Tabitha Redepenning Part III: Political and Societal Dimensions of Reconstruction and Redevelopment Chapter 10: Novelty and authenticity in urban reconstruction in postwar Spain: Projects and political discussions in the case of the Ciudad Universitaria of Madrid Carolina Rodríguez López Chapter 11: Spaces of Consumption: Fashioning Authenticity and Urban Tourism in Cold War Rome and West Berlin Aimée Plukker Chapter 12: Bazar or business district? The redevelopment of the centre of Marseille and the reputation as ‘Maghrebi’ city Daniel Hadwiger Information Classification: General Chapter 13: Urban redevelopment and the role of former inhabitants in the authentification of Katendrecht, Rotterdam Susan Hogervorst and Vincent Baptist Chapter 14: Un/Intended authenticity – the creation of historical authenticity in Rotterdam and Florence Tino Mager Chapter 15: Images of a past that never was: on the reconstruction of Berlin’s Hohenzollern Palace and German history Magnus Brechtken Part IV: Visual and auditory representations of urban authenticity Chapter 16: Building the image of a city. Visual authentification strategies in Potsdam since 1989/1990 Anja Tack Chapter 17: In search of authenticity – local museums as a test field in Brandenburg, Germany, in 2022 Elke Kimmel and Arne Lindemann Chapter 18: Paper maps, online map services and transitions of urban authentification processes in Poznań, 1900–2023 Christian Lotz Chapter 19: The (unobvious) musical legacy of Krakow. The case of the Romani musician Stefan “Corroro” Dymiter Anna G. Piotrowska Chapter 20: Conclusion Christoph Bernhardt. 

Biography

Christoph Bernhardt is a Senior Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner/Berlin, Germany.

Daniel Hadwiger is a historian and curator at the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin, Germany.

Achim Saupe is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam, Germany.