The political significance of modernist heritage architecture continues to be an unsolved question,particularly its identification and conservation.In Spain,the chronology of modernism stretches through the whole of t...The political significance of modernist heritage architecture continues to be an unsolved question,particularly its identification and conservation.In Spain,the chronology of modernism stretches through the whole of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship.The passing of legislation on memory politics in Spain(i.e.the 2007 Law of Historical Memory and the 2022 Law of Democratic Memory)offers a unique opportunity to address this unsolved question by discussing two uncharted heritage debates:namely,the motivations for the heritagisation of modernist architecture in Spain and the challenges in the adaptive reuse of modernist buildings with controversial histories.The former police headquarters in Seville exemplifies the complexities of both debates and to what extent conflicting views about heritage architecture may determine debates about its reuse.Through a documentary review of the heritagisation of Seville’s former police headquarters,a discourse analysis of intervention proposals and press articles and interviews with relevant stakeholders,this study explored how the rise of memory politics in Spain has changed the interpretation of the former police headquarters’significance in the last two decades and influenced the choices for its adaptive reuse.展开更多
This paper projects the concept of cultural landscapes into the realm of urban conservation in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape(HUL)paradigm.To do this I take an historical overview of how,during the latter...This paper projects the concept of cultural landscapes into the realm of urban conservation in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape(HUL)paradigm.To do this I take an historical overview of how,during the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s,academic and professional interest in heritage studies started to embrace the cultural landscape construct.This movement continued through the 2000s with increasing links between theory and practice on urban conservation concerns and the concept of cities as cultural landscapes.In this connection the move in 2011 by UNESCO with the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape is particularly notable.Coincidental were two significant movements.First was increasing questioning of heritage as focusing narrowly on the monuments and sites mentality.Second has been the growing appreciation that urban conservation locking onto separate historic towns or specific parts of cities is counter-productive;it ignores towns and cities as holistic entities isolating historic areas virtually as museum pieces separate from the rest of the urban fabric and lacking sustainability.In contrast HUL with its landscape approach is a process1 that embraces-city-wide-cultural,natural,tangible and intangible,social,economic,visual and experiential aspects of the physical morphology of the city and the image of the city;it underpins the fundamental concept of urban areas as a series of layers through time that link past,present and future as in the construct of cultural landscape.展开更多
The relationship between heritage and rural development takes place within the heritage making process.It presents different characteristics of what exists in urban context,especially through the role that can p...The relationship between heritage and rural development takes place within the heritage making process.It presents different characteristics of what exists in urban context,especially through the role that can play the built heritage in the reception of the tourists.The study of the case of a French department,the Gers,characterised by an important intangible heritage linked to gastronomy and agriculture,but away from the major flows of mass tourism,reveals three major criteria for success:the importance of organising an actor’s network that gathers the world of local economy,tourism and heritage,in conjunction with local authorities;the existence of a strong legitimation structure that justifies these links.In France it was developed from a scientific approach:that of rural ethnology;the inscription in a temporality which allows successive stages and which is as much that of the local development project as that of the patrimonial action itself.展开更多
基金funding from the María Zambrano Program of the Spanish Ministry of Universities.
文摘The political significance of modernist heritage architecture continues to be an unsolved question,particularly its identification and conservation.In Spain,the chronology of modernism stretches through the whole of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship.The passing of legislation on memory politics in Spain(i.e.the 2007 Law of Historical Memory and the 2022 Law of Democratic Memory)offers a unique opportunity to address this unsolved question by discussing two uncharted heritage debates:namely,the motivations for the heritagisation of modernist architecture in Spain and the challenges in the adaptive reuse of modernist buildings with controversial histories.The former police headquarters in Seville exemplifies the complexities of both debates and to what extent conflicting views about heritage architecture may determine debates about its reuse.Through a documentary review of the heritagisation of Seville’s former police headquarters,a discourse analysis of intervention proposals and press articles and interviews with relevant stakeholders,this study explored how the rise of memory politics in Spain has changed the interpretation of the former police headquarters’significance in the last two decades and influenced the choices for its adaptive reuse.
文摘This paper projects the concept of cultural landscapes into the realm of urban conservation in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape(HUL)paradigm.To do this I take an historical overview of how,during the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s,academic and professional interest in heritage studies started to embrace the cultural landscape construct.This movement continued through the 2000s with increasing links between theory and practice on urban conservation concerns and the concept of cities as cultural landscapes.In this connection the move in 2011 by UNESCO with the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape is particularly notable.Coincidental were two significant movements.First was increasing questioning of heritage as focusing narrowly on the monuments and sites mentality.Second has been the growing appreciation that urban conservation locking onto separate historic towns or specific parts of cities is counter-productive;it ignores towns and cities as holistic entities isolating historic areas virtually as museum pieces separate from the rest of the urban fabric and lacking sustainability.In contrast HUL with its landscape approach is a process1 that embraces-city-wide-cultural,natural,tangible and intangible,social,economic,visual and experiential aspects of the physical morphology of the city and the image of the city;it underpins the fundamental concept of urban areas as a series of layers through time that link past,present and future as in the construct of cultural landscape.
文摘The relationship between heritage and rural development takes place within the heritage making process.It presents different characteristics of what exists in urban context,especially through the role that can play the built heritage in the reception of the tourists.The study of the case of a French department,the Gers,characterised by an important intangible heritage linked to gastronomy and agriculture,but away from the major flows of mass tourism,reveals three major criteria for success:the importance of organising an actor’s network that gathers the world of local economy,tourism and heritage,in conjunction with local authorities;the existence of a strong legitimation structure that justifies these links.In France it was developed from a scientific approach:that of rural ethnology;the inscription in a temporality which allows successive stages and which is as much that of the local development project as that of the patrimonial action itself.
