Abstract In 2000, two villages, Xidi and Hongcun, were declared World Heritage Sites. This designation was a pivotal moment, for it was the first time the cultural values of a Chinese village were recognised at such a level. Twenty years later, the country is eminent in the discourse on World Heritage and is experiencing a …
Abstract The aim of this study is to analyse the current image of the city of Patras, Greece, and reidentify another perspective dedicated to youth. Primarily, an extensive analysis is carried out about the existing functioning of the city, which is followed by a three -part proposal aiming to create new reasoning for the redefinition …
Image: Special mapping of Patras, Greece Abstract This chapter provides an insight into those endeavours that aim to address the issue of creating a renewed and competitive image of a city, using new ways of reading and presentation with an emphasis on linking local data with those of other international areas. The authors, Petridou and …
Abstract The Smouha City Venture is a collaborative work between Richard Smouha, Cristina Pallini and Marie-Cécile Bruwier. Together they explore various aspects in the creation, development and urbanization of Smouha City, a suburb of Alexandria in Egypt. The book intertwines antiquity, historical and recent architectural discoveries and first-hand accounts of the events proceeding, during and …
Abstract Cross-checking documents, surveys, town-planning schemes, references and projects, this paper explores the processes through which cosmopolitan Smyrna was rebuilt after the fire of 1922 and became a national port-city seat of the newly-established trade fair. Some key ideas for the future of the city – a new university, port extension, and a workers’ district …
Abstract This is a contribution from Italy to the wider debate on the future of cities following World War II, when major problems of reconstruction were being faced. After so much devastation all over the country, radical intervention was required in cities loaded with historical significance. At the same time suburban areas were becoming subjected …
Abstract This contribution examines Alexandria’s recent waterfront projects conceived before the economic crisis of 2008, and the riots of January 2011. Such projects bear witness to a globalisation process driven by multinational corporate strategies, as well as to a changing physical and functional relationship between the city and its port. While claiming the importance of …
Abstract This if the book of proceedings of the MODSCAPES Conference held in Tartu, Estonia, June 11-13, 2018. MODSCAPES Modernist Reinventions of the Rural Landscape (HERA Call “Uses of the past” – grant 5087-00420A) compared a number of agricultural colonisation projects implemented during the 20th century across Europe (and beyond). Conceived in different political and …
Abstract This paper explains how streets and their facing buildings in the southern Chinese city of Amoy (Xiamen) were redesigned during a city improvement plan in the early 1930s. By using a map from the “Simingxilu and Shengpinglu Street Plan” and other planning documents, I show how the new street plan was superimposed atop the …
Image credits: @ Drawings by Monterumisi Abstract At the turn of the 20th century travel towards the South has still embodied a crucial step in Nordic architects’ self-development, but, they were able to go beyond the common mode of contemplation spread by the previous Grand Tour’s approach. The paper examines a case-study apparently remote from …
