Zones of tradition - places of identity : cities and their heritage /

What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formation...

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Main Author: Vinken, Gerhard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2021]
Series:Urban Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Setting the Framework
  • 1 The Heritage of Cities
  • 2 The Crises of the Modern City
  • 3 The Distinctiveness of Cities
  • 4 The Spaces of the Monument
  • Zoning the City. Heritage and Modernity
  • 5 Tashkent / Uzbekistan
  • 6 Basel / Switzerland
  • 7 New York / USA
  • 8 Düsseldorf / Germany
  • Doing Tradition. Heritage Politics and Identity-Building
  • 9 Cologne / Germany
  • 10 Berlin / Germany
  • 11 Palermo / Italy
  • 12 Frankfurt / Germany
  • Reclaiming Heritage. Conflict, Contestation, Canonization
  • 13 Palermo / Italy
  • 14 New York / USA
  • 15 Salvador da Bahia / Brazil
  • 16 New Orleans / USA
  • References
  • Illustration Credits
  • Acknowledgments