The Historical City: A Critical Reference and Role Model is edited by Ilaria Cattabriga, Enrico Chinellato, Arshia Eghbali, Zeno Mutton, Ramona Loffredo.
This book offers a multivocal and interdisciplinary arena that brings together a wide range of thoughts and approaches addressing the intricacies of dealing with the historical city today. Spanning across a multitude of humanistic, sociological, and technological outlooks, it provides a multifaceted overview of current research on the city and its historicity. Featuring contributions from a wide range of scholars, this book is an insightful and thought-provoking read for researchers in Architecture, History, Urban Studies, Social Sciences, and the Arts, as well as professionals and policy makers dealing with historical cities.
The volume is divided into five parts, with the following contributors:
Sensing the Historical City: Between Physical and Digital: Richard Shusterman, Pierpaolo Ascari, Tali Hatuka, Alex Rhys-Taylor, Joe Blakey.
The Imperfect Citizenship of the Historical City: Giacomo-Maria Salerno, Paula Castro, Mesut Dinler, Arshia Eghbali, Zeno Mutton, Alessandro Bozzetti, Nicola De Luigi, Ilaria Pitti.
Urban Art as a Tool for Preservation/Innovation of the Historical City: Sanna Lehtinen, Martin Zebracki, Andrés Góngora, Andrea Borsari, Enrico Chinellato.
Critical and Historical Narratives on Historical Cities: Lorenzo Mingardi, Giovanni Leoni, Andrea Coccorese.
Histories of Historical Cities: Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Ilaria Cattabriga, Ramona Loffredo, Giovanni Bellucci, Andrea Pane, Valentina Allegra Russo, Anna-Paola Pola, Filippo De Pieri and Mariavaleria Mininni.