#SO-03-13 Cultural Heritage and the City
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
European University Institute (EUI)Description
Explore the unique cultural heritage of cities
Cultural heritage is usually discussed in national or religious terms: we speak of Italian culture, Greek civilization, Islamic art, and so on. But today cities are creating their own heritage through museums, galleries, markets of artistic goods, and urban networks. Cities project themselves as cultural hubs representing and connecting entire regions, for example Doha and the UAE, Singapore and Southeast Asia, Los Angeles and North America.
Using these and other examples, through this course you’ll explore exactly what is meant by urban cultural heritage and key concepts related to it.
Who will you learn with?
Anna Triandafyllidou is Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Jeremie Molho is Research Fellow at the European University Institute and the National University of Singapore
Who developed the course?
The European University Institute offers doctoral and post-doctoral training in the social sciences. It hosts the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Historical Archives of the EU.
What Will I Learn?
- Explain what cultural heritage is, its different types and how it has emerged as an area of public policy
- Identify the key actors of cultural heritage governance
- Evaluate the impacts of cultural heritage projects on cities
- Explain the tensions between urban development and cultural heritage
- Compare the governance of heritage in different cities or countries
Topics for this course
What is cultural heritage?
What is cultural heritage?00:02:28
Types of heritage
What is culture?
Distinguish culture from heritage
Definitions of heritage according to the cultural context00:05:18
Cultural heritage policies
Cities and their heritage
The course introduces us to the course of cultural heritage through different cases, each of which is very exciting.
Jeremie Molho, the lecturer, has done a great job of making the whole course easy to understand and simple.
It's great that in this course we are led to explore what urban heritage really is and the key concepts associated with it.
It's an interesting and wonderful course to explore with us the unique cultural heritage of the city.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for anyone interested in cultural heritage and cities, but it might be of particular interest to students of archaeology, sociology, and related subjects; urban practitioners like planners and community activists; or cultural heritage professionals like those working in tourism.