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Vienna. A Guide to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Vienna's historical center was recently named a UNESCO World Heritage landmark, and Manfred Wehdorn's new guide takes the visitor on a tour of the historical streets and busy urban squares as well as the quiet hidden courtyards that make Vienna unique. This architecturally and culturally rich metropolis comes alive as the stories behind the buildings and palacesnbsp;-- their builders, architects, and often illustrious inhabitantsnbsp;-- are revealed in Wehdorn's illuminating text. The guide itself is a useful and systematic compendium containing fifty maps that make navigating the city and locating the individual sites a breeze. For anyone interested in, or planning to visit, this beloved European capital, Vienna: A City Guide is essential reading.
Vienna
Seit Dezember 2001 zählt das historische Zentrum Wiens zum Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO â€" eine bedeutende Auszeichnung, welche die hohe Qualität des Städtebaus und der Architektur in Wien zeigt.Manfred Wehdorn, einer der prononciertesten Denkmalpfleger Wiens, dokumentiert und definiert auf allgemein verständliche Weise den Begriff des „Weltkulturerbes“. Er porträtiert seine Stadt in ihrer gebauten und in ihrer kulturellen Tradition und verdeutlicht auch die Verpflichtung, welche die Auszeichnung „Weltkulturerbe“ mit sich bringt. Dokumentiert wurden auch die Bestrebungen Wiens, den Status des Weltkulturerbes zu erreichen, zu erhalten und die Zukunft innovativ zu gestalten.
International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation
The majority of books in English on historic building conservation and heritage preservation training are often restricted to Western architecture and its origins. Consequently, the history of building conservation, the study of contemporary paradigms and case studies in most universities and within wider interest circles, predominantly in the UK, Europe, and USA focus mainly on Europe and sometimes the USA, although the latter is often excluded from European publications. With an increasingly multicultural student body in Euro-American universities and with a rising global interest in heritage preservation, there is an urgent need for publications to cover a larger geographical and social a...
Historical Urban Landscape
This book uses the Historic Urban Landscape - the most recently codified notion of international urban heritage conservation - to demonstrate why it is necessary to demarcate history from cultural heritage and what consequences the increasing popularity of the latter have on history. It also demonstrates how the history of cultural heritage can be constructed as a historical problem. First, the conceptual history of urban heritage preservation – based on the standard setting instruments of international organizations – reveals the fundamental elements of the current concept of urban heritage. Second, this concept, as worded in the HUL approach, is investigated through the analysis of Vienna, which played a crucial role in the establishment of HUL. These examples are used to to show how the evolution of cultural heritage can be constructed as a historical problem.
Das industrielle Erbe Niederösterreichs
Niederösterreich beherbergt eine der ältesten Industrielandschaften Europas und besitzt ein reiches industrielles Erbe. Dieses zu erforschen ist Aufgabe der Industriearchäologie, die sich mit den Überresten des Industriezeitalters befasst und aus den Spuren sowie der Hinterlassenschaft industrieller Tätigkeit, die vielgestaltige Industriegesellschaft zu rekonstruieren versucht. Seit dem sich abzeichnenden Wandel von der Industrie- zur Kommunikationsgesellschaft erhielt die Industriekulturforschung einen besonderen Stellenwert im Rahmen der Geschichtsschreibung. Als für die Industriearchäologie und Industriedenkmalpflege grundlegender Aufgabenbereich erfasst die Inventarisation die mat...
Cities and Cultural Landscapes
Places are locations of value where psychological and cultural needs are satisfied. Human relationships with particular environments play a key role in motivating, developing, and nurturing the life of societies. Undifferentiated space becomes ‘place’ as we understand it better and its built and natural forms become endowed with value. However, misunderstanding the critical importance of heritage locations, particularly based on rejection of local and regional distinctiveness, has often led to their destruction. Featuring essays from across central Europe and beyond, and aimed at practitioners, decision makers and concerned citizens alike, this book raises awareness about the responsibility that we bear for every action taken that modifies the formal and socio-cultural context. Potentially, these actions can negatively impact the cultural landscape. Learning to recognize the essential value of heritage to the ‘place-ness’ of our cities and landscapes is vital in helping us to preserve and enjoy their intrinsic beauty and cultural importance.
Adaptive Reuse in Architecture
Liliane Wong's latest volume on adaptive reuse in architecture presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's John F. Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New Museum in Berlin. The projects are presented using a new classification system that addresses practitioners as well as academics. The author's introductory essay provides a comprehensive overview and historical context for the enormous evolution and expansion of adaptive reuse over the past 50 years.
Conversions
Addresses the growing trend in converting existing structures into a series of ingenious living spaces as it looks at varied projects from around the world in rural, urban, and civic buildings, as well as lofts, industrial spaces, and other unique buildings, examining such topics as what elements of the structure are left intact, what are demolished, how each building was converted into a dwelling, budgets, materials, and impact on the surrounding environment.
