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Small Town Resilience and Heritage Commodification

by Luďa Klusáková (Volume editor) Bianca del Espino Hidalgo (Volume editor)
©2021 Edited Collection 326 Pages

Summary

Small towns are continuously overlooked and under-researched, although they represent a type of urban settlement present in large numbers, especially in Europe. Questions regarding the resilience of small towns are an important issue acknowledged in the EU policy of regional development. This volume is written by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars who are convinced about the importance of small towns 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. The chapters present cases from Europe and beyond. It represents various types of situations and approaches of urban communities, but it is not limited to success stories. The authors deal with places that are undervalued, not fully exploited or in danger because of lack of appreciation. They explore a wide range of strategies in the fields of revitalization stabilization, stagnation, decline or desertification, considering the possible role of heritage, as well as small towns’ creativity in networking initiatives.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the editors
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Table of Contents
  • Luďa Klusáková (*1950–†2020) (Jaroslav Ira)
  • Foreword (Jaroslav Ira)
  • Principles for heritage-based resilience in small towns facing the global era (Luďa Klusáková and Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo)
  • Section I: Reflections
  • Can small towns survive in a global world? The cases of Avesta and Söderhamn (Lars Nilsson)
  • Does the development history influence how we think about small towns? (Réka Horeczki)
  • Section II: Initiatives
  • Tourism and territorial development: Dynamization strategies for an agrarian cultural landscape Guadalhorce Valley in Malaga (Lourdes Royo Naranjo)
  • Viterbo. Heritage and future (Manuela Raitano and co-author Paolo Marcoaldi)
  • The white coal town, the emergence and decline of textile industry in Naoussa (Nikolaos Leonidakis)
  • Ruin and time, abandoned settlements. The small town of Granadilla (F.-Javier Ostos-Prieto and José-Manuel Aladro-Prieto)
  • Section III: Community
  • A new Phoenix from the ashes? (Marta Marçal Gonçalves, Stefan Rosendahl, and María Teresa Pérez-Cano)
  • Building community resilience through heritage in small towns: Case study of Vysoké nad Jizerou (Jiří Janáč)
  • Section IV: Cooperation
  • Corredor Bio-Comechingones, an innovative regional scale agreement among small towns (Mónica Jimena Ramé)
  • Networking of small communities for heritagization (Paola Pellegrini)
  • Railway: From global infrastructure to local heritage. The case of the historic railroad Avellino-Rocchetta in Southern Italy (Consuelo Isabel Astrella)
  • Section V: Promotion
  • Balancing between local and global: Heritage presentations of central European small towns (Case of Telč and Bardejov) (Jan Krajíček)
  • Entry into the UNESCO club: The experience of the Ulyanovsk region (Elena Elts)
  • Research survey
  • Touristification of historic urban centres in the Southern Italian Salento region (Katja Maaria Huovinen)
  • Conclusion
  • Heritage characterization and strategies for resilient small towns (Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo – Luďa Klusáková)
  • Note on authors
  • Series index

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Luďa Klusáková (*1950–†2020)

Jaroslav Ira

I feel honored to write this short portrait of our dear colleague and teacher, Professor Luďa Klusáková. At the same time, it is hard to accept that she will no longer be able to see this result of her work and to make so many of the plans she had in mind really happen.

Luďa Klusáková studied history and French philology at Charles University, where she later pursued her academic career as a historian of modern European history, with the main focus on urban and cultural history. For more than forty years, Luďa Klusáková was a respected scholar and gained a high reputation in international academic circles. She became professor of History and led a Seminar on General and Comparative History for two decades. Enormously active in international cooperation, Luďa played an important role in several international projects, such as the CLIOHRES.net research network (leader of thematic workgroup), TEMA Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (academic coordinator for Charles University), REACH Horizon2020 project (leader of Charles University team), and KREAS research project (work-package leader). Last but not least, Luďa has long been an active member of the international committee of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) and served as the president of EAUH from 2010 to 2012. Among her awards, one could mention the title of Chevalier de l’ordre des palmes académiques, awarded by the French Government for building relations between France and the Czech Republic in the academic sphere, and recently, honorary membership in the Finnish Academy of Sciences.

Details

Pages
326
Publication Year
2021
ISBN (PDF)
9782807617445
ISBN (ePUB)
9782807617452
ISBN (MOBI)
9782807617469
ISBN (Softcover)
9782807617438
DOI
10.3726/b18527
Language
English
Publication date
2021 (November)
Published
Bruxelles, Berlin, Bern, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2021. 326 pp., 64 fig. b/w, 13 tables.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Luďa Klusáková (Volume editor) Bianca del Espino Hidalgo (Volume editor)

Luďa Klusáková was a professor at the Faculty of Arts, Institute of World History, at Charles University for more than 40 years and directed the Seminar of General and Comparative History from 2000 until her passing in 2020. She graduated from two programmes, history and French, at CUFA. Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo is an architect. She has done her PhD in architecture, Masters in architecture and historical heritage and Masters in sustainable city and architecture. She works as a research fellow in the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage.

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