From Rome to Lübeck and Danzig

Presentation

Urban heritage policies have evolved considerably since 1945, firstly due to the concerns arising from successive historical contexts, from the need to urgently rebuild historic cities that were partly or even totally destroyed by war through to the choice to transform former industrial sites in the outskirts of cities into cultural development areas with a partial heritage focus. 

In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of researchers including historians and art historians, geographers, architects and urban planners study the policies and processes of heritagization since 1945 and at various periods, based on case studies from several historic cities of northern and eastern Europe (Lübeck in Germany and Gdansk, Wroclaw and others in Poland) and, more recently, in Rome’s outskirts. The complexity of the linkages between national and international policies (UNESCO, European policies) and urban policies is a particular focus.

Editors

Marie-Louise Pelus-Kaplan is an emeritus professor of modern history at Paris-Diderot University, ICT laboratory. She is a specialist in the history of Hanseatic and European cities in the modern era (16th to 18th centuries) and has studied the contemporary history of heritage policies in her work on the Cities-Architecture-Heritage (VAP) master’s speciality and, since retiring, within the Sociétés Plurielles (Pluralistic Societies) multidisciplinary programme of COMUE SPC.

Dominique Rivière is a professor of geography, specializing in Italy, Europe, European integration, territorial planning, urban policy, decentralization and regional development inequalities. She is a member of the Géographie Cités (City Geography) UMR research unit and is one of the leaders of the Planning and Local Development Master’s degree at Paris-Diderot University in Paris. 

147 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication date: 01/11/2019
ISBN: 9782858313235