Conference Details
Reconstruction between Past and Present: Comparing Historical Cities
Prof. Simonetta Ciranna – Prof. Andrew Hopkins
As part of the conference: “Reconstruction, Recovery and Resilience of Historic Cities and Societies”, our session dedicated to reconstruction between past and present: comparing historical cities seeks to examine the specific experiences of reconstructions carried out during the twentieth century and up to the present in different geographical contexts.
Through the analysis of different historical and cultural situations, the session intends to compare operating principles, methodologies and practices implemented in emergency circumstances, with the aim of highlighting regulatory developments, significant experiences, models to be proposed, mistakes to be avoided.
Scholars of different backgrounds and disciplines are invited to participate (in particular from Italian regions affected by earthquakes in the period indicated) in what we aim to make a wide-ranging discussion at an international level: a distinct aim is to also tease out potential future modes of intervention given awareness of the experiences and experiments carried out over more than a century, in historic cities and on ‘fragile’ architecture, built environments and territories hit by destructive events.