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The development of small towns and historic settlements is a priority in Russia's spatial development. Along with the problems that are common to small towns, there are many features that are key to working out strategies of their development.
Zakieva Liliya F., Stepanchuk Alena V.
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The historic town of Sandomierz as a tourist destination
Towns are tourist destinations because of their material heritage, cultural events as well as a wide range of other attractions. A special role in contemporary tourism development is played by historic towns that offer tourists not only heritage but also
ROBERT FARACIK
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Postmodern Reconciliation: Reinventing the Old Town of Elbląg
The famous historic Old Town of Elbląg in northern Poland was comprehensively destroyed in the Second World War, neglected for several decades in the post-war period, and beginning in 1979, rebuilt from scratch in a postmodern style. The new, flamboyant,
Florian Urban
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Emergence and Structure of Urban Centralities in a Medium-Sized Historic City
Within the last 20 years, medium-sized cities in Portugal’s interior have been subject to a process of “desertification.” They have progressively lost in terms of economic activity, value and vitality, with the corresponding erosion of their heritage ...
Eduardo Miranda +2 more
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The relationships between the Built Environment (BE) and SUdden-Onset Disasters (SUOD) are increasingly the focus of hazard mitigation investigation.
Edoardo Currà +5 more
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Spatial and functional segregation is deemed today among the most outstanding phenomena of the Algerian town in general and of its traditional historic core in particular. By an unbalanced quantitative and qualitative distribution of urban facilities and
Saïd Hassaine, Abdallah Farhi
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Some Aspects of Medieval Historic Town Management Tradition in the Book of Aksum
The significance of medieval historic town management traditionsHistorical practices and traditional wisdoms of historic town management are vital elements of the contemporary landscape-based heritage management practice.For example, the 2011 ...
Matiyas Bekele Fantaye +3 more
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Provins as an example of a “live museum”
The article concerns the history, revalorisation and accessibility of the cultural heritage in the historic town of Provins, located to the southwest of Paris. The town was founded in the early medieval period, and in the 12th and 13th century it was one
Kuśnierz-Krupa Dominika
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Peculiarities of genesis, development and values of Vilnius historic suburbs
The object of investigation is peculiarities of the genesis, development and values of Vilnius historic suburbs. Historic suburbs are the territories of a town which at one stage of their genesis were suburbs and their founding is interrelated with the ...
Dalia Dijokienė
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Computing Urban Fabric of a Historical Town
Traditional computer simulation is replaced by 3D scans of the temporary urban fabric in a Taiwan heritage site for the quantitative assessment of local evolvement. The transfer of as-built point cloud model to the vertical and horizontal sections enables the inspections of evolved openness types on an old street enclosed by building facades and ...
Naai-Jung Shih +3 more
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