On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites

✍ Scribed by D. Fairchild Ruggles (auth.), D. Fairchild Ruggles (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 changing as they are made and then remade by the people who inhabit or simply visit them, and concentrate on change, pluralism, and fragmentation. The strength of On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites is its comparative approach to both theory and grounded research. It includes an introductory essay that explains the heritage principle under study--the challenges of scale in the environment of a city or large complex--and its development as seen in the policy instruments of ICOMOS, UNESCO, and other major heritage organizations.The combination of wide-ranging case studies (including essays on North America, South America, Central America, the Middle East, and Europe) and the theoretical background make this volume an invaluable asset for researchers in archaeology, urban studies, art and architecture, cultural heritage, public policy, and tourism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: The Social and Urban Scale of Heritage....Pages 1-14
The Heritage of Social Class and Class Conflict on Chicago’s South Side....Pages 15-35
The Politics and Heritage of Race and Space in San Francisco’s Chinatown....Pages 37-59
Urban Heritage, Representation and Planning: Comparative Approaches in Habana Vieja and Trinidad, Cuba....Pages 61-88
The Space of Heroism in the Historic Center of Cuzco....Pages 89-113
The City of the Present in the City of the Past: Solstice Celebrations at Tiwanaku, Bolivia....Pages 115-130
Is Nothing Sacred? A Modernist Encounter with the Holy Sepulchre....Pages 131-150
Rebuilding Mostar: International and Local Visions of a Contested City and Its Heritage....Pages 151-168
Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places: Nation-Building and the Dismantling of Ankara’s Non-Muslim Landscapes....Pages 169-191
The Contemplation of Ruins: Heritage Cosmopolitanism and the Parsing of Cairo’s Islamic Fabric....Pages 193-222
Heritage and Sustainability in Shunde (China)....Pages 223-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-244

✦ Subjects

Archaeology; Cultural Heritage; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional and Cultural Studies; Human Geography