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.
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 cultural heritage of urban peripheries, community involvement, the relationship of youth with cultural heritage, the heritage of ethnic communities and their cultural identity, tourism development supported by heritage resources and the art-heritage relationship at urban peripheries. It looks at the whole spectrum of heritage of the metropolitan peripheries including architectural heritage (industrial areas, factories and warehouses); transport infrastructure (canals and railways); social housing, and contemporary residential architecture. It also comprises the rich intangible heritages of working-class and/or migrant communities, in process of constant change and reconfiguration through protest, negotiation and cultural expression. This significant volume reveals the heterogeneity of the existing cultural heritage in the urban peripheries, the complexity of the processes of recognition and social appropriation of these assets as well as their need for protection.
This is a pivotal resource for students, scholars and academics of urban studies, tourism studies and cultural studies, as well as those with an interest in these topics more generally.
Introduction. 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).
2.
Assessment of Approaches to the Conservation of Large Housing Estates in
Germany.
3. The Vulnerable Heritagisation of Large Housing Estates: Two
Examples in Aubervilliers (Paris).
4. Digital Storytelling for the
Conservation of Cultural Memory: The Case of the Darsena of Ravenna.
5. The
Challenge of Safeguarding the Industrial Heritage of the Paris Metropolitan
Area: Between Preservation, Oblivion and Demolition.
6. Exclusion by
Heritage: Heritage Conservation and Tourism as Agents of Spatial Cleansing in
Mehrauli, Delhi.
7. Ecomuseum in the Urban Periphery: Modernity, Tourism and
Heritage in the Village of Zhenshan. 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.
9. Social Appropriation of Cultural Heritage in the Metropolitan
Periphery of Madrid: The NE(T)GO project (Coslada, Madrid).
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).
11. Struggling for the Right to the City Among Ruins: The
Case of 'Plato's Academy' Neighbourhood in Athens.
12. Beyond ville and cité:
The Trajectories of the Community-based Revitalization of the Peripheral
Heritage of Nowa Huta (Poland).
13. "We Don't Do Digital, We Dig It All":
Experimenting with 'Data Civics' Methods to Support Urban Development in
Granton, Edinburgh. 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).
15. "For Mother Earth!" Bolivian Celebrations in New York
City: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Locality.
16. Urban Rhapsodies:
Cultural Heritage and Education. New Engines for the Regeneration of the
Peripheries in Rome and Turin (Italy).
17. Cultural Festival Heritage,
Diaspora Communities and Urban Peripheries: Durgpj in Finland.
Marķa Garcķa-Hernįndez 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.
