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Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation

The Heterotopic Tool as a Means of Heritage Assessment

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  • © 2020

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Authors:
  1. Smaranda Spanu

    1. Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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  • Offers a practical perspective on an otherwise traditionally theoretical discussion (heterotopian studies)
  • Presents a new method for analyzing heritage preservation, heritage values and the intervention on the built heritage
  • Interdisciplinary appeal

Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Smaranda Spanu
    Pages 1-3

  3. Heterotopia and the Utopian Project

    • Smaranda Spanu
    Pages 5-150

  4. The Heterotopic Character and the Function

    • Smaranda Spanu
    Pages 151-238

  5. Architecture and the Heterotopic Concept

    • Smaranda Spanu
    Pages 239-386

  6. Heritage as a Heterotopic Space. The Tertiary Character and the Hybrid Characteristic as Arguments of Its Heterotopic Character

    • Smaranda Spanu
    Pages 387-419

  7. Case Study

    • Smaranda Spanu
    Pages 421-470

  8. Conclusions

    • Smaranda Spanu
    Pages 471-477

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 479-483
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About this book

This book approaches the field of built heritage and its practices by employing the concept of heterotopia, established by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The fundamental understandings of heritage, its evolution and practices all reveal intrinsic heterotopic features (the mirror function, its utopic drive, and its enclave-like nature). The book draws on previous interpretations of heterotopia and argues for a reading of heritage as heterotopia, considering various heritage mechanisms – heritage selection, conservation and protection practices, and heritage as mnemonic device – in this regard. Reworking the six heterotopic principles, an analysis grid is designed and applied to various built heritage spaces (vernacular, religious architecture, urban 19th century ensembles). Guided through this theoretical itinerary, the reader will rediscover the heterotopic lens as a minor, yet promising, Foucauldian device that allows for a better understanding of heritage and its everyday practices.

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  • Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Smaranda Spanu

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