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The City Restoration of Amsterdam (Stadsherstel Amsterdam) is an example of achievements of private initiative with public supports in the field of heritage conservation. Since 1956 the company has shown its perseverance in saving historic urban ensembles of Amsterdam that led to an acknowledgement from UNESCO as a world heritage city in 2010. It is a private company with social mission: targeting profitable ends by keeping standard of restoration.

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- Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Heritage Conservation, Unesco

Le quartier du Nikolaiviertel, situé au centre de Berlin, est considéré comme le lieu de naissance de la ville remontant au 13e siècle. Malgré son charme médiéval, le quartier fut construit dans les années 1980. Ce dernier a été conçu comme moyen d’enraciner l’identité est-allemande dans le passé afin de se démarquer culturellement de ces voisins à l’ouest, et ce, à une époque de détente et de rapprochement entre la République démocratique allemande (RDA) et la République fédérale d’Allemagne (RFA). Depuis la construction du quartier, Berlin a connu une transformation exceptionnelle; elle est passée de ville scindée à la capitale d’un des pays les plus puissants au monde. La question se pose : quelle est l’importance de Nikolaiviertel, ce projet identitaire est-allemand, dans le Berlin réunifié d’aujourd’hui ? Ce projet part de l’hypothèse que le quartier est beaucoup plus important que laisse croire sa réputation de simple site touristique kitsch. En étudiant les rôles que joue le ...

- by Mathieu Robinson
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- Urban Planning, Urbanism, Berlin, Germany

ქარვასლებს წარმოადგენდა ნაგებობები, რომლებიც აღიმართებოდა აბრეშუმის მთელ სამარშრუტო გზაზე და მოვაჭრე მოგზაურთათვის თავშესაფრად მსახურობდა. აქ ქარავანი დასასვენებლად რჩებოდა, შემდეგ კი თავის გზას აგრძელებდა. მოგზაურებს ქარვასლები უზრუნველყოფდნენ კვებას, დასვენებას, სამომავლო გზისთვის
მოსამზადებელ დროს და საქონლის გაცვლის შესაძლებლობას ადგილობრივ ბაზრებზე, რაც კულტურულ და ენობრივ გაცვლასაც უზრუნველყოფდა. ამგვარად ქარვასლები არა მხოლოდ მოგზაურთა ძალების მოსაკრეფად იყო გაპირობებული, არამედ კულტურულ
გამდიდრებასა და თანამშრომლობის განვითარებაში დიდ როლს თამაშობდა.

- by Ella Saakian
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- Caravanserais, Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgian Art and Architecture, Old Town

The article presents the course and the results of previous archaeological and architectonic research conducted at the parish church of St. John the Baptist (now the Metropolitan Cathedral Warsaw) in the Old Town in Warsaw. In principle, the text is also an attempt to answer the question whether the current research results allow the satisfactory description of the history of the church building

- by Wlodzimierz Pela
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- Church History, Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, Old Town

The act of rebuilding Warsaw’s Old Town after the Second World War was an attempt to ensure the continuity of the communist Polish state with the traditions and history of its predecessors, as well as what Adrian Forty calls ‘countericonoclasm…remaking something in order to forget what its absence signified.’ However, contrary to the claims of the city architect in the early 1960s that ‘the Old Town now looks as it used to long ago’, it is clear that the rebuilt Old Town was no pure facsimile of the pre-war city - the ideology of the Polish United Workers’ Party had a significant impact on the architectural profile of the ‘new’ Old Town. In
contemporary Poland, the dominant discourse suggests that links between ideology and the built environment were severed after the fall of the Polish People’s Republic in 1989. However, ideology continues to impact the ‘nexus’ of social relations
between Warsaw’s reconstructed buildings and those who use, design and think about them. The Old Town still occupies a contested, uncertain position in the political imagination of post-communist, late capitalist Poland

- by Michał Murawski
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- Architecture, Ideology, Heritage, Memory

When we're talking about heritage building conservation, the topic cannot be separated from architecture context. The truth is every building project is involving many disciplines other than architecture. In the daily practice, like any other building project, a heritage building conservation project is an interdisciplinary project. This journal will explain each discipline's background that should contribute in a heritage building conservation project. People behind the project are divided into three groups, which are: professional expertise such as architect, engineers, historian and archaeologist; site expertise such as project manager, contractors and vendors; and also stakeholder such as owner, investor, tenant and government. The stakeholders are mostly not familiar with the project technical issues, which is why there is a need to educate their role in conservation project since they are the ones who mostly hold the power. A project manager role is needed during the process to mediate each discipline's aim and find solution without diverging from the main purpose, which is to conserve a heritage building. The journal will also contain each disciplines rights and especially obligations to the project and to each other. The writing's purpose is to make a guideline for everyone involved in a heritage building conservation project especially the stakeholders, since there are very few regulations and rules about this topic. The bigger goal is to create awareness for everyone that a heritage building should be preserved for its sustainability.

- by Angeline Basuki
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- Cultural Heritage, Conservation, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Colonialism

The aim of the study is evaluation of the spatial organization quality of the Old Town district in Mysłowice town, with using of the urban audit. This is a procedure with independent modules for data collection and processing for the revitalization programs preparation and for revitalization monitoring ex post also. Selected study area has a historical urban and architectural pattern and contemporary it characterized by the economic recession and progressive degradation of the urban tissue. To determine the scale of urban and functional degradation was used the form with researched features and spatial units with its point rates (from 0 to 3). The urban audit was made within all of the Old Town’s streets and squares and the final results was presented on map. The studies show that the district of administration and service center is the best maintained, and the highest degree of degradation is noted in north-west and south peripheries. Obtained results were also confirmed in an update of the Municipal Revitalization Program for the Mysłowice town

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- Old Town, Spatial Economy, Urban Audit, Revitalization Processes
- by Ipek Ozbek Sonmez and +3
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- Urban Design, Walkability, Kentsel Tasarım, History of İzmir
- by Bugu Sah
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- Architecture, Service Quality, Cyprus, Cafes
- by Ediz Orac
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- Architecture, Service Quality, Cyprus, Cafes
- by Andrzej Leder
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- Psychoanalysis, Architecture, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Ideology
- by Fabio Mariano
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- Urban History, Urban Studies, History of The Marches (Italy), Urbanistica

ملخص البحث تعتبر فلسطين أرض الحضارات المختلفة؛ فقد ضمت العديد من الحضارات من عصور ما قبل التاريخ لغاية الآن، حيث أنتجت هذه الحضارات العديد من المدن (البلدات القديمة) الباقية لوقتنا الحاضر. من ضمن هذه المدن: مدينة بيت لحم، والتي تضم... more

- by Rabab Alshweiky
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- Cultural Heritage, Old Town, Bethlehem
- by Małgorzata Popiołek-Roßkamp
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- World War I, East Prussia, Old Town
- by Rabab Alshweiky
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- Historic Preservation, Hebron, Old Town

The study of contexts affecting construction and its development in historic
urban landscapes of Tub Tiang, Trang Province is based on architectural forms and
related factors so as to figure out the correlation. The development of shophouses
can be identified into seven phases comprising Localization-Style Step; Localization
Style Step 2; Eclectic Style; Localization Style Step 3; Art Deco Style; Early Modernism
Style; and Modern and Post Modern.

- by Kreangkrai Kirdsiri and +1
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- Historic Urban Landscape, Shophouse, Old Town

La riqualificazione delle architetture militari e dei loro contesti ambientali, che costituiscono insieme il paesaggio fortificato, è connessa al lavoro di chi acquisisce e sa riconoscere ed interpretare l’organizzazione funzionale, spaziale e costruttiva di entità che sono più articolate delle singole strutture, magari già di per sé complesse da analizzare in quanto piuttosto stratificate. Per tale obiettivo è necessario conoscere i principi che hanno guidato la costruzione delle opere fortificate attraverso un’attenta analisi critica. La verifica di queste regole getta le basi per uno studio sistematico degli elementi connessi al concetto di fortificazione secondo una metodologia univoca finalizzata alla loro valorizzazione. Tra i vari borghi storici dell’Italia Meridionale, Gesualdo è uno dei più interessanti della Campania interna e merita un’attenzione particolare in quanto qui sono ancora presenti numerose tracce di un passato militare e cavalleresco. Il borgo è conosciuto come la Città del Principe dei Musici in onore di Carlo Gesualdo, che qui visse a cavallo tra il sedicesimo e il diciassettesimo secolo, fino alla morte, e che oggi è noto a livello internazionale per il suo genio musicale e i suoi tormentosi eventi biografici. Il primitivo insediamento della cittadina, che denuncia una fondazione tipicamente medievale con impianto radiocentrico, si sviluppò tra l’undicesimo e il dodicesimo secolo attorno all’emergenza di una torre realizzata in epoca longobarda, che nel corso dei secoli passò da semplice struttura difensiva a dimora signorile fortificata, fino a divenire un suntuoso palazzo rinascimentale. Attualmente la conformazione del centro storico di Gesualdo è il risultato di una sommatoria di interventi che sono stati segnati dai numerosi terremoti e dalle profonde e radicali trasformazioni dell’ambiente costruito. Ciononostante il riconoscimento dei particolari difensivi sopravvissuti all’interno del castello conduce alla ricostruzione di parte della sua evoluzione costruttiva; l’analisi di alcune particolari soluzioni architettoniche e urbane all’interno del centro storico portano a definire il borgo un valido esempio di città fortificata del periodo feudale; la lettura di alcuni documenti storici contribuisce a validare alcune ipotesi su quanto cancellato da demolizioni e trasformazioni e a giustificare alcune modifiche paesaggistiche disposte in passato.

- by Fabio De Guglielmo
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- Fortifications, Castles, Medieval Fortifications, Castles and Fortifications

Northern Cyprus, along with entire planet earth is currently going through a period of pandemic outbreak of the COVID-19 virus which is taking a toll on the past, on the social life and most importantly, on the physical and mental health of billions of people. Every pandemic outbreak experienced by humans has introduced a new configuration of "what is normal" and has imposed a life with new habits and precautions that became normal. The present pandemic period of COVID-19 has had a negative impact not only on people's health but also on the economy in many countries where initially the measure of full confinement was adopted only to be followed by controlled deconfinement covering new measures that would enable evolution of the virus to be observed and the national economy to be revived. Many health organizations such as the World Health Organization as well as national governments published various scientific measures and cautioned against risks of non-observance of these measures. Similarly in Northern Cyprus was undertaken an initial stage of total lock-down followed by a controlled deconfinement aimed at economic revival. The aim of the present article is to establish a guide concerning measures to be adopted in the fight against COVID-19 and to facilitate a most efficient application of such measures. Health measures established by the World Health Organization were reinterpreted with a focus on spaces and turned into a compilation in an effort to establish a guide. Application and interpretation of the guide were demonstrated via three establishments of similar functional and structural characteristics located in proximity of each other in intramural Nicosia. Every step to be taken and every evaluation to be made in relation to COVID-19 at present, shall shape not only the pandemic period currently but also the future through problems to be faced in the near future in Northern Cyprus and worldwide .

- by Bugu Sah and +1
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- Service Quality, Cyprus, Cafes, Old Town