Planetary Urbanisation and the Built Heritage from a Non-Western Perspective: The Question of ‘How’ We Should Protect the Past

Abstract The process of planetary urbanisation, which is currently affecting a large part of the world, impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way. Its dramatic rapidity often implies the sudden disappearance of traditional urban and rural structures and the rapid transformati...

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Main Author: Giulio Verdini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Built Heritage
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/BF03545678