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Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions
Creative approaches to both planned and unplanned new practices remain an essential, yet somewhat invisible, part of sustaining living heritage. This collection of essays by interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners draws attention to how decisions are ...
Lettera Ventidue2023Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices
Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng
For decades, hosting mega-events in the present place has been considered as a strategy to boost the future urban landscape. More recently, however, the re-use of the city fabric’s past heritage has become central rather than the increasing urbanisation of ...
2023Le Locle/La Chaux-de-Fonds: Public histories and industrial heritage in contemporary cities
Florence Graezer Bideau, Filippo De Pieri
Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds were inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2009 under the label “watchmaking town planning”. The contribution aims at developing a few questions linked to this heritage site. To what extent the “outstanding universal values ...
2022