Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
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Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city of Xi’an, China, traditionally with a high residential density, is currently undergoing a process of renovation aimed at transforming it into a functioning replica of the Tang-era Imperial City. Guided by a fifty-year governmental city plan, historic monuments were transformed to theme parks in the name of authenticity, seeking to recreate the ill...
The Democratic Republic of Congo celebrated fifty-five years of independence in 2015. The busts and equestrian statues dating from the colonial era, however, are still present on Belgian squares and traffic junctions. As narratives of colonialism are not as unified as these representations suggest, some monuments have become places of negotiation where the past is debated and ideas for the future are expressed. The political use of Place du Trône, a square in Brussels that houses a statue ...
This paper will examine the genesis, development, and current status of the Never Forgotten National Memorial, the centrepiece of which is a huge statue, to honour Canada’s over 100,000 war dead who did not return home from combat. Popularly referred to as “Mother Canada,” the over five-storey high structure of a woman with out-stretched hands is to be erected in Green Cove, an ecologically sensitive area, within the confines of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park located in northeast ...
St. Catherine’s Church, located on a side street to Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, is a property of great interest for the relations between Sweden, Finland, and Russia and belongs to the church-related heritage of western European offspring in St. Petersburg. The church functioned as an obvious focal point for the Swedish congregation in St. Petersburg from 1700 until 1917. After the Russian Revolution, the church’s work was maintained on the premises until 1936, albeit with great dif...
Throughout its 175-year history, Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, has evolved into one of Canada’s most admired educational environments. Boasting several nineteenth-and early twentieth-century structures, it is most associated with its 1960s red sandstone proto-modernist buildings. While these are noteworthy in their own right, earlier instances of Mount Allison’s Modernist heritage have been demolished or retrofitted with little regard for their significant design an...
Cultural clusters seem to have a leading role in urban and cultural policy decisions. In recent years, more and more cultural clusters attract investments, in the hope, that as an accentual part of the considered-to-be-booming cultural sector, these investments would be profitable on the long run. Such promising effects can be attributed to the development in the related cultural industries, to the growth in the tourism, accommodation and food service sectors, moreover to the revitalizatio...
