Urban heritage preservation: A new frontier for city governance in Latin America

Author(s):  
E. Rojas
2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Jūratė Jurevičienė

The paper discusses urgent problems of urban heritage assesment and treatment in Lithuania today. Contradictions in the system of listing, lack of fundamental investigations, indeterminate responsibility of authorities, inadequate role of local communities are revealed as the basic factors of low efficiency of urban heritage preservation. The most efficient means of urban heritage preservation are revealed in protected national and regional parks. Historic towns and villages of these areas remain more authentic than registered urban heritage sites in the other territories of Lithuania. The initiative of local administrations could also be considered as one of the most important factors in urban heritage preservation. Scandinavian experience in the protection of urban heritage reveals the importance of local inhabitants in the processes of historic town preservation. Recent international documents on cultural heritage protection and changes in the Lithuanian urban planning system enable perfection of urban heritage preservation. The launched reimbursement of expenses for restoration works in Lithuania shows positive changes in this field. Santrauka Nagrinėjamos dabarties Lietuvoje susiklosčiusios teisinės paskatos ir kliūtys išsaugoti urbanistikos paveldą. Analizuojami Lietuvos įstatymai ir įstatymų įgyvendinamieji dokumentai, reglamentuojantys urbanistikos paveldo vietovių apsaugą kultūros paveldo apskaitos bei teritorijų planavimo lygmenyse. Siekiama atskleisti urbanistinių darinių vertingųjų savybių išsaugojimo teisinių nuostatų veiksmingumą. Atskleidžiami teisiniai trukdžiai ir paskatos gyventojams dalyvauti istorinių miestų ir miestelių kultūrinės vertės išsaugojimo procesuose.


Author(s):  
Omar Alexis Roldán Villanueva

El presente artículo busca la comprensión de la gentrificación en Latinoamérica a partir de un aná- lisis conceptual que plantea que esta no puede tratarse como un asunto aislado, sino que está vin- culada a la gestión urbano-patrimonial –en tanto efecto frecuente de la planificación urbana– y al centro histórico –en tanto área de la ciudad con cierta particularidad, no solo de carácter histórico sino, además, de historicidad de la ciudad–. La gentrificación tiende a desarrollarse en otras latitu- des en los espacios centrales; de ahí surge el interés por comprender las posibilidades de que los centros históricos latinoamericanos sean o no espacios generadores de gentrificación. Además de buscar profundizar en conceptos y teorías, el propósito de este texto es determinar, a partir ciertas casuísticas latinoamericanas, si resulta objetivo hablar de gentrificación en los centros históricos de América Latina, y qué particularidades de la región determinan cómo se desarrollan allí los procesos de ese tipo. La gentrificación en la actualidad es una categoría controversial debido a su origen an- glosajón, puesto que toda conceptualización euro-norteamericana genera cuestionamientos entre muchos autores latinoamericanos respecto de la idoneidad de su uso. Palabras clave.-Centros históricos, gentrificación, gestión urbano-patrimonial. ABSTRACTThe article presented here seeks to understand gentrification in Latin America through a con- ceptual analysis. It proposes that gentrification cannot be understood only as an isolated issue, but rather that it is connected to urban heritage management –as a common effect of urban planning– and to the historic center –as an area of the city which is not only specific in a historical sense, but also in terms of the historicity of the city–. Gentrification tends to develop in central spaces in other latitudes; the desire to understand the possibilities of Latin American historical centers as spaces that generate gentrification, or not, emerges from such a phenomenon. In addi- tion to a search to deepen concepts and theories, the purpose of the paper is to determine, on the basis of Latin American cases, if it is objective to speak of gentrification in the historical centers of Latin America and what particularities the region may have regarding such processes. Gentrifi- cation is currently a controversial category due to its Anglo-Saxon origin and any Euro-American conceptualization is put into question by many Latin American authors, in terms of the appropri- ateness of the use of concept. Keywords.-Historical centers, gentrification, urban heritage management.


2020 ◽  
pp. 101-115
Author(s):  
Beatriz Haspo

In regions with great social, economic, environmental and cultural inequality, such as in Latin America and the Caribbean, networking becomes critical to enhance professional development in heritage preservation aiming to value cultures, ancestors and cultural patrimony. This article presents the trajectory of APOYOnline - Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas, a non-profit organization with more than 4,500 members, which, for the last 30 years, has been promoting professional development and especial initiatives that foster integration and cultural equity in the field of heritage preservation in Latin America, the Caribbean and other Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries. It reflects on the challenges yet to be overcome in order to achieve integral, committed and sustainable preservation Keywords: Sharing, Heritage Preservation, Education, APOYOnline, Cultural Equity


ARSNET ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diandra Pandu Saginatari ◽  
Adrian Perkasa

This paper is an attempt to converse about urban heritage preservation and its experience. To converse is to colloquially discuss ideas that comes to mind while we are looking back at the 2019 photographs of some parts of Kota Tua Surabaya (The Old Town of Surabaya) and reflect upon our knowledge background, one of architecture, the other of history. This conversation is created through a form of creative writing, creative nonfiction, where we begin with our personal thoughts, one of experiencing ruination and the other of witnessing complexity of urban heritage preservation, one of decay and the other of paint. We involve relevant discourses and the use of visual materials such as collages, diagrams, and drawings as a form of visual inquiry and visual illustration, showing the interpretation, reality, and the imagination of fragments of Kota Tua Surabaya. The process involved in creating this conversation could be one of the ways to creatively build collaborative knowledge and have the writings and the visual materials based on personal voice, expanding the academic form of writings.


2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.


2005 ◽  
Vol 173 (4S) ◽  
pp. 86-86
Author(s):  
Donna Y. Deng ◽  
Matthew P. Rutman ◽  
Larissa V. Rodriguez ◽  
Shlomo Raz
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