Urban Heritage in Europe - Economic and Social Revival

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.

List of contents

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 1745–2018
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 KUČAN AND RICHARD STILES
6 The Lure of Timeless Urban Landscapes: Built and Pictorial Heritage at Szentendre
PETER ERDŐSI
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/Gdańsk in Contemporary Polish Prose
NOEMI KERTESZ
10 Longing for the Unwanted: Legacies of Socialism and Urban Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Belgrade
JOVANA JANINOVIC
Index

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gabor Sonkoly
• Assisted by: Gábor Sonkoly (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032388304
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238830-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, Central Europe, urban economics, Economics of industrial organisation, Human Geography, Urban communities, Development Studies, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade, Economics of industrial organization, Regional / urban economics