On Location Heritage Cities and Sites

 On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites merges the material and the social perspectives of preservation and historical interpretation in urban landscapes. The essays in this volume focus on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites. They examine the ways that cities are dynamically ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ruggles, D. Fairchild (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Social and Urban Scale of Heritage
  • The Heritage of Social Class and Conflict on Chicago’s South Side
  • The Politics and Heritage of Race and Space in San Francisco’s Chinatown
  • Urban Heritage, Representation and Planning: Comparative Approaches in Habana Vieja and Trinidad, Cuba
  • The Space of Heroism in the Historic Center of Cuzco
  • The City of the Present in the City of the Past: Solstice Celebrations at Tiwanaku, Bolivia
  • Is Nothing Sacred? A Modernist Encounter with the Holy Sepulchre
  • Rebuilding Mostar: International and Local Visions of a Contested City and Its Heritage
  • Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places: Nation-Building and the Dismantling of Ankara’s Non-Muslim Cultural Landscapes
  • The Contemplation of Ruins: Heritage Cosmopolitanism and the Parsing of Cairo's Islamic Past
  • Heritage and Sustainability in Shunde (China)