Cities, Images and Heritage

Recommended Prerequisites

Urban sociology. 

Teaching Methods

Expository methods with presentation and discussion of cases. 

Learning Outcomes

1) Discuss the forms of representation and promotion of Portuguese cities. 2) Analyze the underway heritage processes in Portuguese cities. 3) Examine programs and intervention instruments in the field of heritage processes and urban redevelopment. 4). Discuss ways of promoting urban leisure and subject them to a critical reading. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I - Cities
1. From Medieval city to historic city centres.
2. Metropolization and transformation of city centres.
3. The formal and the informal city. Visibilities and urban forgetfulness.

II - Images
4. Discourses and images of the contemporary city.
5. New forms of cities representation.
6. The territorial marketing and benchmarking city.

III - Heritages
7. Conventions and Recommendations on international heritage.
8. Whose heritage?
9. Heritage, gentrification and urban redevelopment.
10. Heritage, counter gentrification ad desheritazion.
11. Heritage and economy of experiences. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Paulo Jorge Marques Peixoto

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

ARANTES, A. - A guerra dos lugares : fronteiras simbólicas e liminaridades no espaço urbano de S. Paulo. In CIDADE, cultura e globalização : ensaios de sociologia. Org. C. Fortuna, 2a ed.. Oeiras : Celta, 2001. p. 259-270. ASCHER, F. - Metapolis : acerca do futuro da cidade. Oeiras : Celta, 1998.

ASHWORTH, G. - From history to heritage: from heritage to identity: in search of concepts and models. In BUILDING a new heritage : tourism, culture and identity in the new Europe. Ed. G. J. Ashworth and P. J. Larkham. London : Routledge, 1994. p. 13-30.

ASHWORTH, G. J. ;; TUNBRIDGE, J. E. - The tourist-historic city : retrospect and prospect of managing the heritage city. Amsterdam : Pergamon, 2000.

BABELON, J.-P. ;; CHASTEL, A. - La notion de patrimoine. Paris : Liana Levi, 2000.

CIDADE, cultura e globalização : ensaios de sociologia. Org. C. Fortuna;;. 2a ed.. Oeiras : Celta, 2001. COSTA, A.F. - Sociedade de bairro: dinâmicas sociais da identidade cultural. Oeiras : Celta, 1999.