1st Edition

Urban Heritage in Europe Economic and Social Revival

Edited By Gábor Sonkoly Copyright 2023
240 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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List of contributors

Acknowledgements

 

PART 1 INTRODUCTION

1 Regimes of Urban Heritage in Europe

Gábor Sonkoly

 

2 Kraków – the "heritage city" model

Jacek Purchla

 

PART II PRESERVING URBAN MONUMENTS

3 The Making of a Twenty-First Century Castle, Edinburgh 1745 to 2018

Robert J Morris

 

4 Heritagisation of Urban Art Nouveau Architecture: the Synagogue of Subotica

Lilla Zámbó

 

PART III URBAN LANDSCAPES

5 Design History of Nineteenth Century Urban Public Parks: Relevance of Historic Parks in Urban Landscape Heritage

Kinga Szilágyi, Ana Kučan, Richard Stiles

6 The Lure of Timeless Urban Landscapes: Built and Pictorial Heritage at Szentendre

Péter Erdősi

PART IV URBAN HERITAGE AS INNOVATION

7 Nordic Harmonisation of (Urban) World Heritage and the Changing Regimes of Heritage

Tanja Vahtiklari

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

Noémi Kertész

10 Longing for the unwanted: Legacies of socialism and urban heritage tourism in contemporary Belgrade

Jovana Janinovic

Index

Biography

Gábor Sonkoly is Director of the Doctoral School of History, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.