scholarly journals An ancient debate on urban renewal and built heritage: Dio Chrysostom and the city of Prusa

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Christopher Siwicki
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Dio Chrysostom ◽  
Building Activity ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The City ◽  
Controversial Nature ◽  
Local Politician

Abstract Scholarship on architecture and urbanism in antiquity has focused on building activity and investment in the fabric of cities as positive processes, typically starting from the assumption that such developments were welcomed by inhabitants – but were they? This article examines objections to urban renewal and the construction of monumental public building in the Roman world. Specifically, it focuses on the city of Prusa and the controversy surrounding the renovation of its civic centre by the local politician Dio Chrysostom in the early 2nd century AD. Using speeches and letters written at the time, the article presents both a new interpretation of this specific episode and brings to the fore the rarely articulated and yet highly controversial nature of building projects that are traditionally thought of as being beneficial. In the conclusion, we also see how this example contributes to research on the issue of heritage as a pre-modern phenomenon.

Definitions and Parameters

2019 ◽  
pp. 6-38
Author(s):  
Christopher Siwicki
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
Roman Architecture ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Architectural Restoration ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the idea of architectural restoration in the Roman world—how ancient authors wrote about it as a subject. It also includes a review of existing scholarship on the subject, defines the concept of built heritage and its applicability to the study of antiquity, and explains the chronological and geographical parameters of the investigation. The final part of the chapter presents a survey of developments in Roman architecture as well as the transformation that the city of Rome underwent between the Great Fire of AD 64 and the early AD 120s, thereby establishing the context in which many of the subsequent discussions can be understood.

From Urban Renewal to the BeltLine: Atlanta’s Use of Public Health Narratives to Reshape the City

2021 ◽  
pp. 153851322098415
Author(s):  
L. Katie OConnell ◽  
Nisha Botchwey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Planning Profession ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Mass Displacement ◽  
City Agencies ◽  
The City

Since the early days of the planning profession, city agencies relied on a public health crisis narrative as a rationale for mass displacement efforts that targeted black communities. Over time, as cities gentrified with white, middle-class residents, the narrative shifted toward the city as a place of health. This article compares Atlanta’s redevelopment narratives from urban renewal to its current citywide greenway project, the BeltLine, to understand how city officials utilized public health language to rationalize displacement and how the narratives ran counter to residents’ lived experience.

Visual discoveries of an urban wanderer: August Endell's perception of a beautiful metropolis

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Building Projects ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Urban Scenes ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The City

An unorthodox and influential critique of the modern city was published in 1908 by August Endell, an autodidact in the field of architecture. Influenced by empathy theory, Impressionist ideas, contemporary sociology, and the literary and artistic circles of the time, Endell's small book Die Schönheit der Großen Stadt (The Beauty of the Metropolis) read the metropolis through a new way of ‘seeing’ [1,2]. What he saw was surprising for most readers: the city's centre was discovered in marginal sites, and its lasting identity was grasped in its fleeting moments. Although Endell never drew up encompassing schemes for the city, did not participate in the first city-building competitions of the time, and focused primarily on individual building projects, one of his major publications was entirely devoted to the city. The Beauty of the Metropolis takes the reader on a journey through a city that slowly reveals itself as Berlin. Throughout the book, Endell describes urban scenes such as streets, plazas, stations, and the margins of urbanity, such as the city's blank walls and outskirts.

scholarly journals Built Heritage Attractions in Cultural Tourism: the case of Al - Mustansiriya Madrassa, Baghdad

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Huda Adil Abdulhameed Al-Obaidi ◽  
Osamah AbdulMunem Al-Tameemi
Keyword(s):  
Investment Project ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

This research deals with the subject of Built heritage attractions in Muslim historical building, for what it represents, as an element dealing with Cultural tourism, in the process of developing tourism industry of the city. The location of Mustansiriya Madrassa in Baghdad’s commercial district could make it a profitable investment project to revive a cultural, artistic and tourist centre that could make it a cultural Tourism haven. The problem emerges through, how the role of built heritage to attract tourists in order to give vitality and liveability to the cultural tourism destination such as Al - Mustansiriya Madrassa which is one of the most popular heritage destinations, a historic school building situated in the ancient Abbasid district of Rusafa in the very heart of Baghdad. Therefore, the research's aim is to shed light on the heritage attraction as a mean to clarify the meaning of Cultural Tourism and specifying its definition. This research explains how the built heritage plays an important role in tourism in general and in the cultural tourism in particular because they attract tourists and provides a sustainable economic resource through its inclusion of values that make it distinct from other sources of attraction.

scholarly journals Engagement of Contemporary Communities with the Shared Heritage Resources of the Dwindling Minorities of Central Calcutta

2021 ◽  
pp. 423-436
Author(s):  
Sohini Pyne
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
The City

The accelerated growth of Calcutta as a trading center under the British between the mid-18th and early 20th centuries brought an influx of diverse trading communities, including Armenians, Baghdadi Jews, Parsis, and Chinese, who settled in the historic bazaar nucleus of the city known today as Central Calcutta. These ethnoreligious communities erected significant heritage buildings reflecting their cultures. But with large-scale emigration and a rapidly dwindling local population, this shared built heritage is in neglect and has little or no relevance for Central Calcutta’s contemporary communities. This paper discusses the issues faced by these heritage resources and offers recommendations for enhancing community engagement, initiating co-management and developing common goals amongst contemporary communities so as to effectively safeguard this built heritage of dwindling minorities.

scholarly journals Canberra’s first ever Parklet

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Natalia Weglarz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Australian Capital Territory ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Australian Capital ◽  
Planning Institute ◽  
Temporary Structure ◽  
The City ◽  
As If

In the spring of 2016, The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Planning Institute of Australia’s Young Planners had an idea, to create Canberra’s first parklet. Finally, in June 2018, the Parklet was built! It was a long and complicated journey to provide an urban renewal idea into the ACT, the result was a well utilised and loved piece of Canberra furniture. Although 4 minutes after the last barrier was removed, a car drove into the car space and it was as if the project had never happened! This article will explore the Canberra context, the feedback, how a temporary structure can change the urban fabric of the city and how Canberrans can learn from this experience.

scholarly journals O desenho digital e as paisagens patrimoniais. Convento da Madre Deus de Monchique, no Porto

CEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Tiago Trindade Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
New Research ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Periods

This article is part of a broader reflection on the digital drawing and new research metho‑ dologies in the History of Architecture. Aiming to reflect on the concept of Heritage Landscape, it starts from the old monastic structure of Monchique, in the city of Porto, as an experimental labora‑ tory for architectural and urban research. It is known that digital technology makes it possible to reconstruct elements from other eras, whose time has transformed or disappeared. In this context, and using digital drawing, the recognition of the built heritage and urban structures is sought through a synchronic and diachronic interpretation, attentive to the different historical periods and their specificities.

The First Reinforced Concrete Structures in Urban Renewal in an Italian Provincial City

2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 187-192
Author(s):  
Maria Paola Gatti ◽  
Giorgio Cacciaguerra
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Research Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Structures ◽  
Provincial City ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

For reinforced concrete, we may consider two histories: one focuses on the influence reinforced concrete has exerted on the process of renewal of the architecture of twentieth century; the other pertains to the manners in which the development of this material effectively came about in various geographic areas. The research group at the University of Trento analysed the complex of military constructions produced in the city, and, specifically, it undertook in-depth study of the manner in which the use of reinforced concrete spread to civilian architecture.

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