Small towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries : heritage and development strategies / Lud'a Klusakova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klusáková, Luďa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small cities--Europe.

Small cities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, 2017.

Summary:

Largely unknown small towns, always in the shadow of famous cities, are mostly overlooked by historical research. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Czech and Russian towns are staged in this volume as examples of a typical European phenomenon. They appear in diverse shapes, influenced by their countries and regions in history. One of possible strategies to overcome difficulties and motivate new development uses cultural heritage as a marketable value. International team of urban historians, sociologists and historians of arts and architects joined at the European Association for Urban History conference in Lisbon in 2014 and decided to present the issue in this volume - composed of five chapters - using a variety of methods and perspectives.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface (Luďa Klusáková)

Small Towns as a European Cultural Heritage. Introduction (Luďa Klusáková and Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier)

Performing the Past: Identity, Civic Culture and Historical Pageants in Twentieth-Century English Small Towns (Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme and Paul Readman)

"The architectural rhythm of a small town … is very familiar to us." A Small Town as an Aesthetic Ideal of the Twentieth Century (Martin Horáček)

Strategies of Manufacturing the Tourist Experience in a Small Town: Local Community and Symbolic Construction in Myshkin (Greg Yudin and Yulia Koloshenko)

Urban Cores and Urban Identity: Appropriating and Rejecting a City's History. The Case of Rethymno (Olga Moatsou)

Miraculous Equlibrum. Keys for a Sustainable Network of Small South Iberian Cities (Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo)

Concluding remarks (Luďa Klusáková and Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier)

Bibliography

Note on Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2017).

ISBN:

80-246-3656-5

OCLC:

1009274411