Urban Heritage in Europe

This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage - tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage.

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 Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage -tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage. The 'regimes of urban heritage' approach retraces 200 years of the development of European urban heritage to understand how it has become so significant and how it could integrate practically every area of urban existence.

The novelty of the book is the interpretation of this development as a process of successive and integrating regimes, which are examined through the changing urban heritage agency and discourse. Through the examples of European cities and towns, such as Belgrade, Budapest, Gdansk, Krakow, Ljubljana, Subotica, Szentendre, Vienna, but also Edinburgh, Nordic cities and Rome, these changes reveal their inner complexities and become comparable in an interdisciplinary analysis. Further, a particular aspect of the history of these cities is revealed through the development of their own urban heritage.

The book is primarily aimed at academics, researchers and postgraduate students of cultural and economic geography, cultural history, culture and heritage management, modern and contemporary history as well as urban history, planning and sociology.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

PART I

Introduction

1 Regimes of Urban Heritage in Europe

GABOR SONKOLY

2 Kraków: The Heritage City Model

JACEK PURCHLA

PART II

Preserving Urban Monuments

3 The Making of a 21st-Century Castle, Edinburgh 17452018

ROBERT J. MORRIS

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

LILLA ZAMBO

Part III

Urban Landscapes

5 Design History of 19th-Century Urban Public Parks: Relevance of Historic Parks in Urban Landscape Heritage

KINGA SZILAGYI, ANA KUAN AND RICHARD STILES

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

PETER ERDSI

PART IV

Urban Heritage as Innovation

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

TANJA VAHTIKARI

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/Gdask in Contemporary Polish Prose

NOEMI KERTESZ

10 Longing for the Unwanted: Legacies of Socialism and Urban Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Belgrade

JOVANA JANINOVIC

Index