Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Contested Pasts
Frank, Sybille
Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Contested Pasts - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource
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Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political causes behind them, as well as the consequences for the division and reunification of cities during both wartime and peacetime conflicts. Contributors to the volume define urban heritage in a broad sense, as tangible elements of the city, such as ruins, remains of border architecture, traces of violence in public space and memorials, as well as intangible elements like urban voids, everyday rituals, place names and other forms of spatial discourse. Addressing both historic and contemporary cases from a wide range of academic disciplines, contributors to the book investigate the role of urban heritage in divided cities in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. Shifting focus from the notion of urban heritage as a fixed and static legacy of the past, the volume demonstrates that the concept is a dynamic and transformable entity that plays an active role in inquiring, critiquing, subverting and transforming the present. Urban Heritage in Divided Cities will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, archaeology, ethnology and anthropology. The book should also be essential reading for professionals who are involved in governing, planning, designing and transforming urban heritage around the world.
Open licence
eng
9780429460388 9781138624863 9781138624870
10.4324/9780429460388 doi
Archaeology
History and Archaeology
Library & information services
Library and information sciences / Museology
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Social groups, communities and identities
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Urban communities
Aleppo Amritsar Beirut Belfast Berlin Cape Town Cities City Conflict Contested contested urban heritage Derry Divided Division Frank Fredericksburg Heritage History Intangible Kosovo Londonderry Memory Nicosia Past Political politically contested cities Politics Ristic Singapore static legacy Tangible Urban Violence
Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Contested Pasts - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource
Free-to-read
Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political causes behind them, as well as the consequences for the division and reunification of cities during both wartime and peacetime conflicts. Contributors to the volume define urban heritage in a broad sense, as tangible elements of the city, such as ruins, remains of border architecture, traces of violence in public space and memorials, as well as intangible elements like urban voids, everyday rituals, place names and other forms of spatial discourse. Addressing both historic and contemporary cases from a wide range of academic disciplines, contributors to the book investigate the role of urban heritage in divided cities in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. Shifting focus from the notion of urban heritage as a fixed and static legacy of the past, the volume demonstrates that the concept is a dynamic and transformable entity that plays an active role in inquiring, critiquing, subverting and transforming the present. Urban Heritage in Divided Cities will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, archaeology, ethnology and anthropology. The book should also be essential reading for professionals who are involved in governing, planning, designing and transforming urban heritage around the world.
Open licence
eng
9780429460388 9781138624863 9781138624870
10.4324/9780429460388 doi
Archaeology
History and Archaeology
Library & information services
Library and information sciences / Museology
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Social groups, communities and identities
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Urban communities
Aleppo Amritsar Beirut Belfast Berlin Cape Town Cities City Conflict Contested contested urban heritage Derry Divided Division Frank Fredericksburg Heritage History Intangible Kosovo Londonderry Memory Nicosia Past Political politically contested cities Politics Ristic Singapore static legacy Tangible Urban Violence
