Conveners
T_06 URBAN CULTURES AND LIVED HERITAGE (B): Cultures, Heritage, and Transformations 1
- Tihomir Viderman (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
- Evangelia Athanasiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
T_06 URBAN CULTURES AND LIVED HERITAGE (B): Cultures, Heritage, and Transformations 2
- Pedro Guimarรฃes (Lisbon University)
- Zeynep Gunay (Istanbul Technical University)
Istanbul is a metropolis that both experiences the effects of multiple crisesโsometimes even becoming part of the crisis dynamicsโand has the potential to develop proactive solutions to them. Since 2019, the city has been actively working to address these challenges through innovative planning approaches.
The macro-scale planning outputs of these new approaches are the Istanbul Vision 2050...
Thirty years after the release of the Nara Document on Authenticity, the concept of authenticity still faces many difficulties in its localization in China, which are manifested in three aspects: the contradiction between absolutization and relativization, materiality and spirituality, and authority and popularization. In China's historic cities, there are a large number of traditional...
In the context of the European debate on the valorisation of the most fragile and scarcely accessible territorial contexts, a key role has long been recognised for heritage, no longer a static constraint to be preserved, but a real driving force in territorial cohesion and development policies. Heritage has acquired a central role in stimulating the exchange of specialised and local knowledge,...
As societies deal with increasingly turbulent urban conditions, the role of creative city policies as potential catalysts for change becomes more urgent than ever. The concept of the Creative City has become a central framework in the urban policy of developed countries (Cooper and Florida, 2005; Pratt, 2011; Landry, 2012), often positioned as a driver of economic growth, cultural vibrancy,...
In Finland, the building stock is relatively young: the majority of the buildings is built during the second half of the 1900s. Yet, statistics show high demolition rates in Finland, in particular in growing cities, where demolishing has boomed in parallel with real estate business. Demolition does not only erase potential layers of heritage, it also threatens officially protected historic...
The intersection of cultural heritage and urban regeneration provides fertile ground for reimagining the sustainable future of cities. Within this dynamic field, social entrepreneurs have emerged as pivotal agents of change, driving innovative and community-centered approaches to revitalizing heritage assets (Scaffidi, Micelli, Nash; 2024).
While the state of the art in social...
Contemporary urban governance systems in heritage management face unprecedented complexity and challenges, particularly in reconciling participatory planning aspirations and realities with the need to balance the everyday life practices of local communities and formal planning processes. While UNESCO's 'living heritage' framework emphasizes the conservation of both tangible and intangible...
In the context of climate change and the prospect of rising sea level and floods, urban waterfronts are seen as increasingly vulnerable geographies between the urban fabric and the sea. At the same time, they are attractive terrains for investment that transform varied coastlines to new landscapes of leisure and high end residential developments. Such large scale projects of waterfront...
The field of heritage faces growing pressures to demonstrate its benefits or contributions as funding declines and the sector is required to conform to results-oriented systems. In this context, arguments suggesting that urban heritage fosters social cohesion gain prominence. However, these arguments often do not specify how urban heritage can enhance social cohesion, which is further...
This paper provides a framework for value-driven transformation in residential neighbourhoods of the period 1965-1990 in the Netherlands. Many of these neighbourhoods are facing both massive restructuring programmes due to planned large-scale technical upgrades as part of the regular maintenance cycle of buildings, infrastructure and public (green) spaces, and transformations as part of the...
