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 (including Richard Shusterman, Sanna Lehtinen, Joe Blakey, Martin Zebracki, Alex Rhys-Taylor, Andrea Borsari, and many other), 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: “Sensing the Historical City: Between Physical and Digital” (ed. Arshia Eghbali); “The Imperfect Citizenship of the Historical City” (ed. Zeno Mutton); “Urban Art as a Tool for Preservation/Innovation of the Historical City” (ed. Enrico Chinellato); “Critical and Historical Narratives on Historical Cities” (ed. Ilaria Cattabriga); and “Histories of Historical Cities” (ed. Ramona Loffredo).