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Duration: 2013-11-01 - 2015-11-01
Project coordinator: Technische Universiteit Delft (Netherlands)
Project consortium: Technische Universiteit Delft (Netherlands) Newcastle University (UK) University College of Dublin (Ireland)
Funding bodies: JPI CH
Subject areas: History, Tangible Heritage, Built Heritage, Urban Heritage, Methods/procedures, Sustainability, Heritage Management
Budget: 240,000€
Website: https://planningandheritage.wordpress.com/shuc-a-sustainable-future-for-the- historic-urban-core

Presentation

  • This project proposes to establish a collaborative network of researchers with a common interest in changing practices in urban planning and management of historic cities.
  • It brings together research on planning practices for the historic urban core from three countries to apply a common theoretical framework.
  • It will develop new comparative understandings of evolving practices and their consequences.
  • The method of analysis is primarily to bring existing research and scholarship in the three countries into a common cross-national conceptual framework.

Impacts & Results

  • The project will for the first time provide a comparative perspective on the management of the historic urban core in Europe. It will provide an empirical understanding of the impacts of contemporary political values on the planning and management of historic urban core in northwest Europe.
  • It will extend theoretical understanding of heritage management particularly in respect of the application of strategic planning theories and in understanding the extent of ‘conceptual equivalence’ of heritage management in varying cultural conditions.
  • It will provide practical outputs in terms of lessons on re-writing rules and practices in local strategic planning and management of the historic urban core, particularly in respect of relations between public, private and civil society stakeholders.
  • The practice applicable academic output is pre-eminently suitable for implementation in the education program of the universities participating in this project. The output is public domain knowledge and we would encourage other universities and also other public and private parties to use the output of this project.
  • It is expected this project to get a follow up by providing a platform for more in-depth comparative research by the network in the future.
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