Things Don't Really Exist Until You Give Them a Name Unpacking Urban Heritage

Urban heritage conundrumUrban built environments are spatial and material archives. Streets, buildings, open spaces, or infrastructures are registers of historical negotiations and repositories of data. Stories of power, geopolitics, economic systems, labour and culture can be revealed through road...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: TU Delft OPEN Publishing 2023
Subjects:
activism
Architecture
art practice
City and town planning: architectural aspects
Landscape architecture and design
Library and information sciences / Museology
Museology and heritage studies
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
research methods
Social groups, communities and identities
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
The Arts
Urban communities
urban heritage
urban heritage conflicts
Urban heritage conundrum
urban heritage toolkit
ISBN:9789987083220, 9987083226
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Summary:Urban heritage conundrumUrban built environments are spatial and material archives. Streets, buildings, open spaces, or infrastructures are registers of historical negotiations and repositories of data. Stories of power, geopolitics, economic systems, labour and culture can be revealed through road names and construction materials, portals and pediments, park benches and chimneys. Embodying our desires, needs, and resources, they condition how we live and interact with each other, and trigger countless reinterpretations and re-appropriations. Most of this dense layering is not immediately legible; it has not been decoded. Rather it is part of a more intuitive, lived sense of “urbanity” that generates contemporary individual and collective senses of identity and belonging. These complex urban palimpsests form the constitutive stages upon, with and against which everyday and extraordinary cultural life is performed.
ISBN:9789987083220
9987083226
DOI:10.59490/mg.65