Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations: Deep Cities

Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations introduces the concept of "deep cities" to integrate the long-term, transformative character of urban heritage into sustainable urban policies. It challenges the focus on green or smart cities and offers an approach that combines an in-depth understanding of the past with the present and future. The book explores different definitions of "deep cities" and reveals conflicting views among stakeholders. However, it demonstrates how this approach can help create robust cities for the future by combining new and innovative solutions with the preservation and strengthening of historical features.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations introduces the concept of "deep cities," a novel approach to understanding and managing sustainable historic cities. It challenges the prevailing focus on green or smart cities, which focus solely on the present and future, and proposes a more comprehensive approach that combines an in-depth understanding of the past with the present and future. The book brings together chapters that address theoretical, methodological, and management issues related to "deep cities," arguing that using this approach will require researchers, managers, and consultants to actively use the heritage and history of a city in the planning and management of sustainable cities. It explores different definitions of "deep cities" and reveals varying and sometimes conflicting views among stakeholders concerning how, where, and when the depth of a city should be conceptualized. Despite this, the book demonstrates how this new approach can help create robust cities for the future by combining new and innovative solutions with the preservation and strengthening of historical features. Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations is the first international collection on the subject of sustainable historic cities, making it of great interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, heritage management, architecture, heritage conservation, anthropology, development studies, geography, planning, and archaeology.

Weight: 544g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367784980