260 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism. While it is the national governments that nominate sites for inclusion in the World Heritage List, and the intergovernmental World Heritage Committee that makes the final... Read more
1 Introduction
2 Intrinsic value, uncontestable expertise: ICOMOS, UNESCO and outstanding universal value
3 Catching up with "the spirit of the moment"
4 World Heritage cities: which urban pasts? Whose urban histories?
5 World Heritage cities: what urban futures?
6 Outstanding universal value and the local narrative of place and heritage: Old Rauma
7 Conclusions
Biography
Tanja Vahtikari is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research at the University of Tampere, Finland.
