Short description:

This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and build upon that cultural heritage.

Long description:

This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and build upon that cultural heritage.

Expert-led and richly illustrated throughout, the text addresses issues such as the management and development of the cultural heritage of urban peripheries, community involvement, the relationship of youth with cultural heritage, the heritage of ethnic communities and their cultural identity, tourism development supported by heritage resources and the art-heritage relationship at urban peripheries. It looks at the whole spectrum of heritage of the metropolitan peripheries including architectural heritage (industrial areas, factories and warehouses); transport infrastructure (canals and railways); social housing, and contemporary residential architecture. It also comprises the rich intangible heritages of working-class and/or migrant communities, in process of constant change and reconfiguration through protest, negotiation and cultural expression. This significant volume reveals the heterogeneity of the existing cultural heritage in the urban peripheries, the complexity of the processes of recognition and social appropriation of these assets as well as their need for protection.

This is a pivotal resource for students, scholars and academics of urban studies, tourism studies and cultural studies, as well as those with an interest in these topics more generally.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.  Part 1. Heritage of the Peripheries: Management and Development. 1. Industrial Heritage Valorisation in the Urban Periphery: A Conscious and Coherent Process? The Leuven Experience (Belgium).  2. Assessment of Approaches to the Conservation of Large Housing Estates in Germany.  3. The Vulnerable Heritagisation of Large Housing Estates: Two Examples in Aubervilliers (Paris).  4. Digital Storytelling for the Conservation of Cultural Memory: The Case of the Darsena of Ravenna.  5. The Challenge of Safeguarding the Industrial Heritage of the Paris Metropolitan Area: Between Preservation, Oblivion and Demolition.  6. Exclusion by Heritage: Heritage Conservation and Tourism as Agents of Spatial Cleansing in Mehrauli, Delhi.  7. Ecomuseum in the Urban Periphery: Modernity, Tourism and Heritage in the Village of Zhenshan.  Part 2. Heritage of the Urban Peripheries: Community Involvement.  8. The Heritage Turn of Citizens' Participation at the Urban Periphery of Madrid (Spain): The Case of Carabanchel.  9. Social Appropriation of Cultural Heritage in the Metropolitan Periphery of Madrid: The NE(T)GO project (Coslada, Madrid).  10. Local Community Involvement in the Protection of the Rural/Periphery Heritage in the Urban Context: Case Study of Participatory City Museum in Chorzów (Silesia, Poland).  11. Struggling for the Right to the City Among Ruins: The Case of 'Plato's Academy' Neighbourhood in Athens.  12. Beyond ville and cité: The Trajectories of the Community-based Revitalization of the Peripheral Heritage of Nowa Huta (Poland).  13. "We Don't Do Digital, We Dig It All": Experimenting with 'Data Civics' Methods to Support Urban Development in Granton, Edinburgh.  Part 3. The Ethnic and Cosmopolitan Heritage of the Urban Peripheries. 14. Exploring Intersectoral Peripheralities: Prospects for the Heritage and Tourism Development of an Ethnic Suburban Architecture (Chinagora, Paris).  15. "For Mother Earth!" Bolivian Celebrations in New York City: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Locality.  16. Urban Rhapsodies: Cultural Heritage and Education. New Engines for the Regeneration of the Peripheries in Rome and Turin (Italy).  17. Cultural Festival Heritage, Diaspora Communities and Urban Peripheries: Durg?p?j? in Finland.