In 1960 Kevin Lynch analysed the ‘city-image’ in The Image of the City; seven years later American artist Robert Smithson surveyed the suburb of Passaic in ‘A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey’. Both approaches use narrativity as an instrument to connect urban space with the lived experience of its users. Where Kevin Lynch analyzes the visual perception and mental representation (‘imageability’) of the postwar American metropolis, Robert Smithson explores the temporality of its peripheral terrain vague. Where Kevin Lynch frames his inquiry within then-current conventions of perception and cognition, Robert Smithson rejects these conventions precisely because they do no justice to his experience of the suburb and offer him no method to analyze or describe it. In his analysis, there is no coherent map of the territory, no mental representation to consult. How does Smithson’s practice relate to the paradigm of ‘imageability’? What is being narrated, and how does narrativity operate? By juxtaposing the two approaches this text reflects on some ideas and issues that surround a narrative analysis of urban landscape.
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Uit de Inleiding De Hogeschool van Utrecht heeft sinds september 2002 de leerstoel Monumentenzorg in de Praktijk. In de monumentenzorg en het restauratiebedrijf bestaat ongerustheid over de instroom van gekwalificeerd personeel op de restauratiegroeimarkt. De instelling van de leerstoel bij een hogeschool duidt op een praktische oriëntatie. Wat is "monumentenzorg in de praktijk"? Ik begin mijn betoog met de toenemende uitbreiding en verschuiving van het vakgebied, vervolgens vertel ik over de kennisbehoefte in de restauratiepraktijk en licht u ten slotte in over de opzet van restauratieonderwijs in Utrecht.
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The paper briefly describes the outcome of an approach to inventory of the current situation, inventory user demands and suggestions to improve energy efficiency and thermal comfort in Borgers' church.
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Brochure voor eigenaren van erfgoedpanden waarmee zij zelf onderzoek kunnen doen naar waarden, cijfers en wensen over verduurzaming van hun gebouw. Het resultaat is documentatie om in gesprek te gaan met professionals zoals een adviseur of de gemeente.
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De kandidatuur van Malta als Europese Culturele hoofdstad in cultuurtoeristisch perspectief
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Even though more than seventy-five years have passed since the end of WWII, its prominence in entertainment media productions along with the global emergence of memorial markers have contributed to its omnipresence in people’s minds. Nevertheless, the perception of this historical event is still far from reaching consensus as nations tend to interpret and remember episodes in accordance with their perspective, thus adding up to the complexity of WWII and of Holocaust memories. With this in mind, this article describes the idiosyncrasies of Portugal’s recent tribute and remembrance strategies for the victims of WWII. The country’s neutral status, along with a set of cultural and historical specifics, has led to the dissemination of tropes leading to the idea of Portugal as an inherently tolerant and mild-mannered nation. A perception that is often fostered by resorting to monuments, museums, tourism and leisure activities. Despite evidence provided, mostly, by recent academic studies and documentary films, these tropes continue to fuel Portuguese popular imagination and are still prevalent in some recently established WWII memory places.
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City growth threatens sustainable development of cities. Over the past decades increased urbanization has created more pressure - not only on the suburban outskirts - but also in the inner core of the cities, putting important environmental issues such as water management and cultural heritage under stress. Cultural heritage, either standing monuments or archaeological remains, is internationally recognized as an important legacy of our history. The European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage incorporates concepts and ideas that have become accepted practice in Europe. Conservation and enhancement of archaeological heritage is one of the goals of urban planning policies. One of the key objectives of the European policy is to protect, preferably in-situ, archaeological remains buried in the soil or seabed and to incorporate archaeological heritage into spatial planning policies. Conflicts with prior uses and unappreciated impacts on other subsurface resources, amongst them archaeological heritage, make use of underground space in cities suboptimal. In terms of ecosystem services, the subsurface environment acts either as a carrier of archaeological heritage in situ (stewardship) or supports above-ground cultural heritage. Often, it’s not enough to protect the heritage site or monument itself: new developments outside a specific protected area can lead to changes in groundwater level, and cause serious damage to heritage buildings and archaeological deposits. This paper presents good practices in cultural heritage management and the use of subsurface knowledge in urban areas.
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Er zijn allerlei publicaties over verduurzamingsmaatregelen voor monumenten en stappenplannen om tot een samenhangende maatwerkoplossing te komen. Maar wat gebeurt er in de praktijk en wat zijn concrete effecten op monumentwaarden, milieu en tevredenheid? Dit onderzochten Libau en de Hanze in opdracht van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) tussen oktober 2023 en september 2024. In totaal werden vijf rijksmonumenten in de provincie Groningen bestudeerd.
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This article will explore the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) framework for urban environments, focusing on the perception, utilization and maintenance of parks. The case study explores the perception of urban flora and the value of greenery in everyday life in The Netherlands. The reflection section addresses the difference between conventional and C2C approaches to greenery on the one hand and current green management policies and public opinion on the other hand. The author reflects on how urban planning policies can be better geared towards public awareness of C2C, and towards the implementation of ecologically benign management of urban flora. It is proposed that an implementation of urban green management consistent with C2C is feasible and desirable. It is feasible given the favorable shifts in public opinion in relation to urban sustainability, and it is desirable due to the basic cost-benefit analysis and increased need for urban sustainability. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Urban Ecosystems. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-015-0468-2 https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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Onderzoeksrapport over opvatting van inwoners over hun waardering voor karakteristieke gebouwen, dorpen en het landschap. En specifiek t.a.v. verduurzaming van dit natuurlijk en cultuurhistorisch erfgoed.
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