Small town resilience and heritage commodification

This volume is written by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars who are convinced about the importance of the small town as a research topic. It looks at how towns approach heritage, its instrumental use and its commodification in support of its survival, asking about towns' strategies to achieve resilience to external pressure.

Jaroslav Ira: Luďa Klusáková (*1950– †2020) – Jaroslav Ira: Foreword – Luďa Klusáková and Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo: Principles for heritage- based resilience in small towns facing the global era – Lars Nilsson: Can small towns survive in a global world? The cases of Avesta and Söderhamn – Réka Horeczki: Does the development history influence how we think about small towns? – Mónica Jimena Ramé: Corredor Bio- Comechingones, an innovative regional scale agreement among small towns – Paola Pellegrini: Networking of small communities for heritagization – Consuelo Isabel Astrella: Railway: From global infrastructure to local heritage. The case of the historic railroad Avellino- Rocchetta in Southern Italy – Jan Krajíček: Balancing between local and global: Heritage presentations of central European small towns (Case of Telč and Bardejov) – Elena Elts: Entry into the UNESCO club: The experience of the Ulyanovsk region – Katja Maaria Huovinen: Touristification of historic urban centres in the Southern Italian Salento region – Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo – Luďa Klusáková: Heritage characterization and strategies for resilient small towns – Note on authors.