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 […]
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A periphery in transformationand a hidden heritage. The case study of the San Donato neighbourhood in Florence.
By Andrea Biondi, Research Fellow on the JPI Deep Cities project, University of Florence The San Donato neighbourhood, in Novoli district in Florence, is located in the north-western area of the city. It is an area out of any tourist itinerary, unknown even to most of the Florentines and not considered peculiar for the representation […]
Florence: memories, needs and urban development. A case study from the 19th century
By Andrea Biondi, Research Fellow on the JPI Deep Cities project, University of Florence Work Package 4 (WP4) is a section of Curbatheri project stricktly oriented to determine and to create an effective link between theory and practice. Its principal aim and deliverable is to create a toolbox to help the governance structures in the […]
THE POWER OF THE STORY
‘DEEP’ STORIES IN HERITAGE PLACES UNDER TRANSFORMATION @ ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, LONDON By Kalliopi Fouseki, Professor in Sustainable Heritage Management at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage (ISHI During my river run this weekend at the Royal Arsenal – a conservation area since 1981 located opposite to the Woolwich Town Centre (also a conservation area […]
Cultural Heritage and its important contribution to sustainable development.
The Directorate for Cultural Heritage is an Associate Partner for the Deep Cities project in Norway. Here, Special Advisor at the Directorate Marit Huuse writes about the importance developing our historic urban environments. We live in a time of great and rapid change in our physical environment. In particular, cities are constantly changing. But the […]