By Andrea Biondi, The University of Florence Between February and March 2022, as part of the activities of the Deep Cities – Curbatheri project at Novoli in Florence, we decided to involve the local Sassetti-Peruzzi High School. The school, located in Via di San Donato, was exactly within our study area and, moreover, it is […]
Linking Theory and Practice: Archaeology and ‘deep cities’ at the Nordic TAG 2022 (Oslo, Norway)
By Ana Pastor Pérez (The University of Barcelona) and Elizabeth Robson (The University of Stirling) From 21–23 April, colleagues from the Deep Cities project were busy participating in the Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group (or TAG) meeting, hosted by the Museum of Cultural History and the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, both part of the […]
Reflections on Heritage and Urban Planning – Exhibition in Florence
From March 31 until April 21 citizens and visitors to Florence can experience the Deep Cities exhibition at Biblioteca delle Oblate e Archivio Storico Comunale. It is well known that cities are constantly changing. As such, cities arecomposed of added historic layers that, over time, transform into heritage whichmerits conservation. Within the conservation process, heritage […]
Heritage as architectonic concept
By Andreas Heier, Senior Landscape Architect, Snøhetta In Snøhetta we always strive to let the projects interact and adapt to its specific context, being the natural or build landscape. The surroundings always come with its own inherited values and history. No projects are the same, other than that they in some way or the other […]
Towards a deep cities ethography of Sant Andreu de Palomar
By Jesús Martín Alonso, Ana Pastor Pérez and Margarita Díaz-Andreu For months the pandemic has delayed the beginning of the fieldwork in the area around the Fabra i Coats factory, in the Sant Andreu de Palomar neighbourhood in Barcelona (for our work in L’Hospitalet, see our previous blog). Sant Andreu de Palomar, a village until […]