Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: An Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past

Alves, Susana

doi:10.1515/esrp-2015-0002

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“…One paper has been assigned to the UU group, even though it does not mention the recommendation. The author addresses the human-environment interaction, and considers tangible and intangible heritage and the different meanings and values HUL: a systematic review after adoption attached to spaces and cultural practices (Alves, 2014), all of which place him very close to the HUL approach. Despite making reference to the Recommendation, two out of the six papers included in the AL group limit the use of HUL to a visual question (Buccaro, 2015;Kepczynska-Walczak and Walczak, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Historic urban landscape

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Roders

2020

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PurposeThe main aim of this paper is to determine how well the UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (hereafter, the HUL approach) is understood by the academic community today. It will review relevant research, highlight shortcomings regarding the HUL concept and approach and explore how well the six proposed steps are being considered when implementing the HUL approach.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents and discusses the results of a systematic review of 140 peer-reviewed publications, published in international academic journals between 2008 and 2019 and available in databases such as WoS and Scopus, such as journal articles, book chapters and books. More specifically, this research takes the six-step process as its theoretical framework in order to understand if the six steps are being followed in the case studies where the HUL approach has been implemented. Following this, it assesses gaps in the HUL concept and approach. The paper explores the HUL implementation management process, investigating what is being done, how it is being done and who is involved.FindingsThe concept ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ has been used in research since 2008. However, the first case studies implementing the HUL approach were not published until 2013. While there is an abundance of theoretical research in relation to the HUL concept and approach from different perspectives and to varying degrees of depth, the case studies which practically demonstrate the HUL approach and its six steps are scarce. This paper will also show how feasible the steps are and which are used the most.Originality/valueThis research demonstrates if the HUL approach is being understood in the academic field and if the implementation of the six steps is being reflected in the literature. This approach will reveal how these steps are being implemented and if this is having an effect on the heritage planning process.

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Section: Discussion-theoretical Papers (68 Papers)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Historic urban landscape

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Roders

2020

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“…Heritage forms part of people's identity and can furnish people who, like refugees, face particular hardship, with a sense of pride, belonging, and continuity (Chatelard, 2017; Le Louvier, 2019). In this context, the concept of affordances has been defined in two ways: as the relation between the physical properties of a heritage landscape and the human being that prompts the act of heritage (Alves, 2014), and as the external stimuli that provoke the possibility of a biographic narrative (Candau and Ferreira, 2015).…”

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Heritage as an affective and meaningful information literacy practice: An interdisciplinary approach to the integration of asylum seekers and refugees

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Innocenti

2021

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“…Food lifestyle could also be beneficially impacted in this case, as healthier and more sustainable food purchases might also be more likely if adequately supported by positive urban affordances. Indeed, many quotidian settings, where individuals are actively present and intellectually engaged in evaluating their surroundings (e.g., Alves, 2014; see also Mercado-Doménech et al, 2017), could be assumed to have beneficial outcomes on human health and wellbeing, as shown in a recent study by Mastandrea et al (2018) on the restorative effects after visions of figurative and abstract art paintings in art museums (see also Chirumbolo et al, 2014 and Mastandrea and Crano, 2018 for more detailed accounts on the social cognitive mechanisms of art preferences).…”

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Social-Cultural Processes and Urban Affordances for Healthy and Sustainable Food Consumption

2018

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In this paper, we provide an overview of research highlighting the relation between cultural processes, social norms, and food choices, discussing the implication of these findings for the promotion of more sustainable lifestyles. Our aim is to outline how environmental psychological research on urban affordances, through the specific concepts of restorative environments and walkability, could complement these findings to better understand human health, wellbeing and quality of life. We highlight how social norms and cultural processes are linked to food choices, and we discuss the possible health-related outcomes of cultural differences in food practices as well as their relation to acculturation and globalization processes. We also discuss the concepts of restorative environments and walkability as positive urban affordances, their relation to human wellbeing, and the possible link with cultural processes and sustainable lifestyles. Finally, we outline issues for future research and areas for policy-making and interventions on the links between cultural processes, healthy and sustainable food consumption and urban affordances, for the pursuit of public health, wellbeing and environmental sustainability.

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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: An Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past

Cited by 8 publications

References 49 publications

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Heritage as an affective and meaningful information literacy practice: An interdisciplinary approach to the integration of asylum seekers and refugees

Social-Cultural Processes and Urban Affordances for Healthy and Sustainable Food Consumption

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