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Heritage from below

ISBN:  1-5275-8794-0 Abstract This volume brings together ideas about the material and social transformation of cities by asking, “what is the relationship between history, memory, and the contemporary city?” The urgency of this question grows in the contexts of rapid urbanization in the Global South and urban decline in the deindustrializing areas of the Global…

Rebuilding and Reconciliation in Old Aleppo-the Historic Urban Landscape Perspectives

Rebuilding and Reconciliation in Old Aleppo: the Historic Urban Landscape Perspectives

DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-8887-2_3 Source URL Click here Chapter Abstract In this chapter, the historical development of Old Aleppo is briefly presented, noting its designation values as a World Heritage Cultural Site in 1986. The significance of Old Aleppo goes beyond such values. Therefore, the sociocultural, historic, economic, identity and intangible values of Old Aleppo, along with…

Heritage as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration-Interrogations and Propositions for the World Heritage Site of Liverpool

Heritage as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration: Interrogations and Propositions for the World Heritage Site of Liverpool

Download ISBN 978-0-9557884-4-4 Source URL Click here Introduction A study of designation, categorisation and consequence of world heritage assets will inevitably throw up quite different interrogations and propositions. The statutory framework for the protection of the historic environment, in terms of selection process and policy guidance, has resulted in a collection of processes that are…