Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation: Clash of Discourses [Hardcover]

The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challengesnot only through the known conflicts between monument preservation and contemporary architecture, but also with the increasing demand for economic urban development by reusing the built heritage of former industrial sites.

This book explores the conservation and change of industrial heritage sites in transformation, presenting and examining ten European and Asian case studies. The interdisciplinary approach of the book connects a diversity of rationales and discourses, including monument protection, World Heritage conventions, urban regeneration, urban planning and design, architecture, and politics. This is the first book to deepen the understanding of industrial heritage site management as a networked, multi-dimensional task involving diverse social agents and societal discourses.

Part I  1. Transformations of Industrial Heritage Sites: Heritage and Planning Heike Oevermann and Harald A. Mieg 2. Studying Transformations of Industrial Heritage Sites: Synchronic Discourse Analysis of Heritage Conservation, Urban Development, and Architectural Production Heike Oevermann and Harald A. Mieg  Part II  3. Liverpool: Heritage and DevelopmentBridging the Gap? Dennis Rodwell  4. From High Voltage to High Density: The Urban Dynamism of Cable Street, Oslo Even Smith Wergeland  5. Milan: Creative Industries and the Use of Heritage Giovanna Fossa  6. The Sulzer/SLM Site in Winterthur, Switzerland: From the Factory to thel#/