Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past

• Authors: Alves, Susana

Abstracts

EN

Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-landscape interaction where intangible values are linked to specific places and meanings are attached to particular cultural practices and socio-spatial organisation. Tangible and intangible values can be examined as part of a system of affordances (potentialities) a place, artefact or cultural practice has to offer. This paper discusses how an ‘affordance analysis’ may serve as a useful tool for the management of historic urban landscapes.

Keywords

EN

affordances; historic urban landscapes; place; culture; tangible and intangible heritage

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2015-01-27

Contributors

author

Alves, Susana

other

Okan Üniversitesi, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture, Tuzla Kampüsü, 34959 İstanbul, Turkey

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10838