[Commlist] New open access book: Co-curating the City (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Co-curating the City, 
edited by Clare Melhuish, Henri Benesch, Dean Sully, and Ingrid Martins 
Holmberg.  Download it free: https://bit.ly/3MFl7E8
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Co-curating the City

Edited by Clare Melhuish, Henri Benesch, Dean Sully, and Ingrid Martins 
Holmberg.
   Free download: https://bit.ly/3MFl7E8
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‘Co-curating the City’ explores the role of universities in the 
construction and mobilisation of heritage discourses in urban 
development and regeneration processes, with a focus on six case study 
sites: University of Gothenburg (Sweden), UCL East (London), University 
of Lund (Sweden). Roma Tre university (Rome), American University of 
Beirut, and Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.

The aim of the book is to expand the field of critical heritage studies 
in the urban domain, by examining the role of institutional actors both 
in the construction of urban heritage discourses and in how those 
discourses influence urban planning decisions or become instrumentalised 
as mechanisms for urban regeneration. It proposes that universities 
engage in these processes in a number of ways: as producers of urban 
knowledge that is mobilised to intervene in planning processes; as 
producers of heritage practices that are implemented in development 
contexts in the urban realm; and as developers engaged in campus 
construction projects that both reference heritage discourses as a 
mechanism for promoting support and approval by planners and the public, 
and capitalise on heritage assets as a resource.

The book highlights the participatory processes through which 
universities are positioning themselves as significant institutions in 
the development of urban heritage narratives. The case studies 
investigate how universities, as mixed communities of interest dispersed 
across buildings and urban sites, engage in strategies of engagement 
with local people and neighbourhoods, and ask how this may be 
contributing to a re-shaping of ideas, narratives, and lived experience 
of urban heritage in which universities have a distinctive agency. The 
authors cross disciplinary and cultural boundaries, and bridge academia 
and practice.

Free download: https://bit.ly/3MFl7E8
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