Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage

We welcome perspectives on all aspects of urban heritage / heritage in the urban context – world heritage, historic urban landscapes, colonial heritage, religious heritage, intangible heritage and traditions, museum heritage, food heritage etc. Potential themes of interest include:

  • Innovative modalities of protection and planning urban heritage
  • Community approaches to and uses of, urban heritage
  • City based tourism and visitor economies of urban heritage
  • Urban heritage as a form of social resistance
  • Heritage as city memory
  • Cosmopolitan urban heritage and re-creating identities
  • Global and mega-city competition through heritage
  • Revitalising the city through heritage
  • Sub-urban  and sub-altern heritage
  • Urban spaces, traditions and intangible heritage

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