Urban Heritage as a Generator of Landscapes: Building New Geographies from Post-Urban Decline in Detroit

Locke, Ryan; Mehaffy, Michael W.; Haas, Tigran; Olsson, Krister

doi:10.3390/urbansci2030092

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“…We define our findings based on the heritage urbanism model in which Locke et al [15] (p. 12) defined urban heritage as an infrastructure and a public good for community's benefits. In the model, they quest for adaptability and generativity of cultural heritage rather than preservation, conservation and authenticity alone, as is often the case in the heritage management.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, by focusing on relations between sustainable development and strategic spatial planning, which includes urban design as a place making process, we turn to the relatively new model and the concept of the heritage urbanism. Heritage urbanism [15] (p. [12][13][14] considers urban heritage as comparable to other infrastructures within cities as a valuable systems approach which acts as a regenerative layer and a common good for the development of the contemporary city. Heritage urbanism, seen it that way, can also contribute to the sense of place, attachment and recreate lost social bonds within the community.…”

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Nodes and Networks: The Generative Role of Cultural Heritage for Urban Revival in Kikinda

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Using heritage as a cultural artifact in city development is not new, but little has been explored about how urban heritage can be utilized as new generative value and a new planning instrument for the revival of cities. The purpose of this paper is to show the creative and the generative use of urban heritage, both for the extension of cultural and tourist offer of the city and for the improvement of the quality of life in physical, social and economic terms for the community. The case study method was used for the adaptive reuse of projects for heritage buildings and urban revival in Kikinda. We argue that urban heritage has to be used, bearing in mind its spatial, economic and social sustainability aspects, and become a generator of urban revival. We go beyond recognition of the value of heritage as a cultural artifact that should solely be preserved and used as a static element in urban development, and view it more as a dynamic asset for city revival processes. We found that for the heritage nodes to be utilized as the new generative value for the revival of cities, they have to be perceived from the network perspective, thus influencing the urban environment in a sustainable way.

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Nodes and Networks: The Generative Role of Cultural Heritage for Urban Revival in Kikinda

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“…They have affected towns and cities differently. While certain regions have been left with challenges linked to socalled 'shrinking cities', others have experienced revived interest in urban living, entered a new positive phase and are thriving and expanding (Locke et al 2018).…”

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“…Another process that has greatly affected the built structures in urban areas is urban planning. In a study that promoted 'heritage urbanism' as an approach to revitalise shrinking cities, an overview of seven domineering urban planning and design paradigms since 1940 was presented (Locke et al 2018). This study focused on the treatment of heritage and found a remarkable shift in attitude towards the treatment of urban heritage during the last decade (2018,(4)(5).…”

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Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration

Swensen

Stafseng

Nielsen

2022

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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With the occurrence of urban densification, understanding the necessity of encouraging and promoting climate-and environment-friendly urban areas has gained ground with urban planners. Ensuring adequate and easily accessible green public spaces is essential for creating healthy environments. In this current study, we look closely at how heritage combined with urban gardening can function as a means to enhance areas that require regeneration. We ask how, in culturally mixed neighbourhoods, urban gardening can link visions of social and physical wellbeing with urban regeneration. This study is a comparative case study of two regeneration projects: 1) the Darwin Ecosystem Project, which promotes alternative eco-friendly lifestyles and innovative start-ups through the adaptive reuse of former military barracks in Bordeaux, France; and 2) Dr. Dedichen's Greenhouse, situated in a heritage environment of a former psychiatric hospital in the eastern part of Oslo, Norway. Conflicting economic, political and cultural views are likely to affect the heritage discourse in marginalised urban areas. When describing heritage in the two neighbourhoods, we used the 'ruinisation' approach to ensure an inclusive understanding of heritage. We describe how old buildings, fragments of larger structures adjacent to the remains of recent history, can be integrated into urban planning initiatives as part of larger, active placeremaking processes. Residents, artists and various citizen's groups, alongside planning authorities, are cooperating to transform neighbourhoods into healthy, climate-and environment-friendly places to live and work. Therefore, heritage combined with urban agriculture is a means to enhance areas that require regeneration.

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“…Focusing on relations between sustainable development and strategic spatial planning 'Heritage Urbanism' appears in the last few years [9]. It considers heritage as a valuable systems approach that acts as a regenerative layer and a common good for the development of the contemporary city [10]. Hence, there is much literature on individual heritage-related topic and project models but revitalization and enhancement of heritage integral within the historical and cultural context clearly lacks [11].…”

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Setting the Methodological Framework for Accessibility in Geo-Mining Heritage Settings—An Ongoing Study of Iglesiente Area (Sardinia, Italy)

Beretić¹,

Plaisant²

2019

Sustainability

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This paper aims to discover why and how accessibility is fundamental to sustainable local development in heritage settings. We discussed the dimensions and variables of accessibility that control the development. Correspondingly, we proposed an interpretative framework for sustainable development planning and management of low urbanized spatial settings and accessibility for the Iglesiente Geo-mining heritage in Sardinia (Italy). The Iglesiente area is affected by a deep post-mining crisis that is reflected in poor socioeconomic conditions and an evident space oriented set of problems (a disorder in landscape matrix, low readability of space, scarce infrastructure and low accessibility). To revert negative trends of space-related problems, the paper proposes a theoretical model acting as an anticipatory landscape planning tool. The model copes with the context-specific problems in combination with theoretical findings. It acts at various scales through the definition of boundaries and variables of the internal and external environment, providing the territorial matrix of equity and cohesion. Furthermore, we argued the limitation and advantages of the model to its implementation capacity for the Geo-mining heritage and low-urbanized spatial settings. The empirical findings from an ongoing project about accessibility to territorial knowledge and services in the Iglesiente area, currently in progress, allow us to test and adjust the methodological framework in the next steps.

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Urban Heritage as a Generator of Landscapes: Building New Geographies from Post-Urban Decline in Detroit

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Nodes and Networks: The Generative Role of Cultural Heritage for Urban Revival in Kikinda

Nodes and Networks: The Generative Role of Cultural Heritage for Urban Revival in Kikinda

Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration

Setting the Methodological Framework for Accessibility in Geo-Mining Heritage Settings—An Ongoing Study of Iglesiente Area (Sardinia, Italy)

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