Culture, urbanism and planning / edited by Javier Manclús and Manuel Guàrdia

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Series: Heritage, culture and identityPublication details: Hampshire, England ; Burlington, USA : Ashgate, cop. 2006Description: xix, 293 pISBN:

9780754646235

Summary: The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity, successful 'global cities' have a strong individual - and particularly cultural - identity. The economic value of the culture of cities lies not only in the arts taking place there but also in the city's fabric, its architecture, and in its cultural heritage. This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture, urbanism and history, the book reviews heritage and planning culture, looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'. The book also assesses the increasingly important issue of urban images and their influence on planning strategies. (Font. Autor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02713	1	Available (Disponible)		1900146874

Reimpressions: 2007

List of Figures -- List for Tables -- Foreword / Roque Gistau Gistau -- Introduction / F. Javier Monclús, Manuel Guàrdia -- Part I. Historical and cultural perspectives: 1. History builds the town : on theuses of history in twentiethcentury city planning / Michael Hebbert, Wolfgang Sonne ; 2. The cultural dimension of urban planning strategies : an historical perspective ; 3. Speak, culture! - culture in planning's past, present and future / Greg Young -- Part II. Images and heritages: 4. Capital cities and culture : evolution of twentieth-century capital city planning / David L.A. Gordon ; 5. The power of anticipation : itinerant images of metropolitan futures Buenos Aires 1900-1920 / Margarita Gutman ; 6. Words and history : controversies on urban heritage in Italy / Giorgio Piccinato ; 7. Urban destruction or preservation? Conservation movement and planning in twentieth-century Scandinavian capitals / Laura Kolbe ; 8. Planning the historic city : 1960s plan for Bath and York / John Pendlebury ; 9. Multiple exposures or new cultural values? European historical centres and recent immigration fluxes / Alessandro Scarnato ; 10. New urbanism and planning history : back to the future / Christopher Silver -- Part III. Cultural urbanism and planning strategies: 11. Branding the city of culture - the death of city planning? / Graeme Evans ; 12. International exhibitions and planning. Hosting large-scale events as place promotion and as catalysts of urban regeneration / F. Javier Monclús ; 13. Contemporary urban spectacularisation / Lilian Fessler Vaz, Paola Berenstein Jacques ; 14. Culture, tradition and modernity in the Latin American city. Some recent experiences / Roberto Segre ; 15. "Cities are fun!" : inventing and spreading the Baltimore model of cultural urbanism / Stephen V. Ward -- Index

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