Problems of Structural Understanding of the Image of Medieval Town/City

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10.2991/assehr.k.200923.027How to use a DOI?

Keywords

image of town/city, identity, material and non-material heritage, architectural and spatial characteristics, cultural traditions

Abstract

The main object of the article is a problem of interconnection of material and non-material in the image of city. The authors start with a supposition that elements of non-material heritage of a settlement or its historical centre possess a structure, in many aspects similar to that one of the complex of material heritage. There also some substantial dominants, as well as links of the second and third level could be highlighted. At that, structures of material and non-material heritage are coordinated in a different way in various cases: their substantial dominants and substantial links can coincide or not. The topic is presented as two case studies of famous historical cities of Russia: Nizhny Novgorod and Novgorod the Great. Their comparison shows that historical and cultural component – the memory of the past of the city – takes a significant place in the content of their non-material heritage. The images preserved in memory interact with the real view of certain monuments of material culture; together with them, these images reveal the historical, symbolical, and sacred essence of the city heritage. Such interaction is especially actual if it is ensured by the coincidence of the dominants of the habitual system of historical and architectural objects with dominants of images preserved in the urban culture, in the memory of the citizens. An analysis of the data of opinion polls gives as a right to say that material and non-material heritage participates in the shaping of the general image of a city, connecting such image with its identity.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aleksey Shchenkov
AU  - Nataliya Antonova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/23
TI  - Problems of Structural Understanding of the Image of Medieval Town/City
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 157
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200923.027
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200923.027
ID  - Shchenkov2020
ER  -