Project: The impact of urban planning and governance reform on the historic built environment and intangible cultural heritage

Acronym Pich
Duration 01/06/2015 - 31/05/2018
Project Topic The PICH project aims to advance understanding of how fundamental reforms in urban planning and governance driven by global forces, are affecting the management of the historic built environment and the intangible cultural heritage of cities, particularly place identity.The intangible cultural heritage of cities is indivisible from the physical historic environment. As a matter of fact, decisions about change or continuity in the historic environment have far reaching implications for intangible cultural heritage, and particularly collective place identity. Radical reform of urban planning and governance has direct impacts on the tangible built heritage of cities, and less well-understood indirect impacts on the intangible cultural heritage, especially place identity. Global forces and European integration are for instance fundamentally changing the processes and doctrine of urban planning and governance. Neo-liberal ideology reinforced by economic crises, the risks associated with climate change, and growing individualism and diversity in society have undermined traditional planning methods. The project evaluates the effect of fundamental reform in planning and governance in three settings: the historic urban core, sites of industrial transformation, and the wider landscape heritage. It assesses the impact of reform on the tangible built environment and place identity, and develop evaluation and education tools
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Network HERITAGE PLUS
Call JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change

Project partner

Number Name Role Country
1 Delft University of Technology Coordinator Netherlands
2 Newcastle University Partner United Kingdom
3 Universita IUAV di Venezia Partner Italy
4 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Partner Norway