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"Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously re-interpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city's identification, but also for its cultural and economic innovation. This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage - tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage. The 'regimes of urban heritage' approach retraces two hundred years of the development of European urban heritage to understand how it has become so significant and how it could integrate practically every area of urban existence. The novelty of the book is the interpretation of this development as a process of successive and integrating regimes, which are examined through the changing urban heritage agency and discourse. Through the examples of European cities and towns, such as Belgrade, Budapest, Gdansk, Kraków, Ljubljana, Subotica, Szentendre, Vienna, but also Edinburgh, Nordic cities and Rome, these changes reveal their inner complexities and become comparable in an interdisciplinary analysis. Further, a particular aspect of the history of these cities is revealed through the development of their own urban heritage. The book is primarily aimed at academics, researchers and postgraduate students of cultural and economic geography, cultural history, culture and heritage management, modern and contemporary history as well as urban history, planning and sociology"--

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The History of Historic Urban Landscape -- Introduction -- The Emergence of the Notion of Urban Landscape -- The Analytical Framework of the Conceptual History of Historic Urban Landscape -- The Database of Standard-Setting Instruments of Urban Heritage -- The Changing Perception of Security and Time of Urban Heritage -- The Conceptual Evolution of the Territory of Urban Heritage -- The Conceptual Evaluation of the Community of Urban Heritage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Vienna and The Vienna Memorandum -- Introduction -- Urban Heritage Protection in Vienna Before World Heritage -- The Vienna Historic Centre as a World Heritage Site -- The First Threat: The Wien-Mitte Project and Its Consequences -- Vienna, The International City -- Vienna's Role and The Vienna Memorandum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: History and Cultural Heritage -- Introduction -- The Current Meanings of History and Cultural Heritage -- A Set of Criteria to Compare History and Cultural Heritage -- System of Indicators -- Comparing History with Cultural Heritage -- Current Impact of Cultural Heritage on History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- References -- Index

The extraordinary context of this policy paper is the launch of the first European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018. This is a notable attempt to assess the potentials and challenges of a shared European cultural heritage. Research on these complex challenges is to provide evidence and advice towards better education, cultural, social and other policies at European, national and regional levels. This policy review gives the state-of-the-art of current EU-funded research on cultural heritage. Based on this mapping exercise interpreted in its wider scientific and policy context, the policy review makes suggestions to attain an appropriate European research framework after 2020, fitting both the current concept of cultural heritage and the corresponding cultural, societal, economic and ecological challenges.