Acknowledgements and further reading

We would make a special thanks to the experts who contributed to our MOOC, and provided great insights into the issues we have talked about:

• Jasper Chalcraft, University of Sussex

• Chiara De Cesari, University of Amsterdam

• Nick Dines, European University Institute

• Cornelia Dümcke, Culture Concepts

• Peter Inkei, The Budapest Observatory

Further readings

If you want to dig deeper into some of the ideas and cases we have developed in the course, you can consult the following references, which we have referred to and drawn on during the last three weeks:

Bille, T., & Schulze, G. G. (2006). Culture in urban and regional development. Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, 1, 1051-1099.

De Cesari, C., & Herzfeld, M. (2015). Urban heritage and social movements. Blackwell readers in anthropology” :172-173

EENC Report (2015) Mapping of practices in the EU Member States on Participatory governance of cultural heritage

Glass, R. (1964). Introduction: aspects of change. In: Centre for Urban Studies (ed.) London: aspects of change. London: MacKibbon and Kee

Hayes, D., & MacLeod, N. (2008). Putting down routes: an examination of local government cultural policy shaping the development of heritage trails. Managing Leisure, 13(2), 57-73.

Hoyle, B. (2000). Global and local change on the port‐city waterfront. Geographical Review, 90(3), 395-417.

Palmer/Rae Associates, 2004. European Cities and Capitals of Culture. Palmer/Rae, Brussels. 


Sassatelli M., 2002. Imagined Europe. The shaping of European cultural identity through EU cultural policy. European Journal of Social Theory 5/4, 435-451. 


Shaw, K (2008) Gentrification: What It Is, Why It Is, and What Can Be Done about It Geography Compass 2/5 :1697–1728

UNESCO report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development