Things don't really exist until you give them a name : unpacking urban heritage

"This book is an outcome of the project 'Simulizi Mijini / Urban Narratives"--Page 316.

Includes bibliographical references.

Things don't really exist until you give them a name: unpacking urban heritage / Rachel lee and Philipp Misselwitz -- Talking cities: urban narratives from Dar es Salaam and Berlin / Diane Barbé, Anne-Katrin Fenk and Rachel Lee -- Study urban heritage from below: towards a toolkit / Diane Barbé, Anne-Katrin Fenk and Rachel Lee -- Narratives from the niches of urban life / KUNSTrePUBLIK: Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst and Harry Sachs -- TYRE / Umesh Maddanahalli -- Heritage is moving / Hannah le Roux -- Navigating "off radar": the heritage of liminal spaces in the city center of colonial/postcolonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo / Johan Lagae, Sofie Boonen and Sam Lanckriet -- Parallel encounters / Nadin Reschke -- Dante's walk. Markers of place in an informal settlement: the Nai Ni Who festival in Nairobi / Joy Mboya and Judy Ogana -- Urithi mijini: activism, preservation policies and demolitions in Dar es Salaam / Walter Bgoya, Rachel Lee and Diane Barbé -- Balancing celebration and critique in community history: a case study from Canada / Laura J. Murray -- Dar stool / Alexander Römer -- Politics of heritage: ethnic minorities and the politics of heritage in northern Nigeria / Samaila Suleiman -- Beyond "preservation": Tanzania's heritage music / Rebecca Corey and John Kitime -- Activating German colonial heritage: Berlin's Afrikanisches Viertel / Susanne Förster, George Krajewsky and Jona Schwerer -- Park life / Cloud Chatanda -- A shadow heritage of the humanitarian colony: Dadaab's foreclosure of the urban historical / Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi -- The sky drew some new lines / Awami Art Collective: Sehr Jalil and Naira Mushtaq -- Cold feet / Paul Ndunguru -- Mobilizing heritage movements for urban commons: the case of Istanbul's vegetable gardens / Gözde Şarlak -- DARCH! Conflicted heritage and civil activism in Dar es Salaam / Annika Seifer and Comfort Badaru -- Intangibility in heritage conservation: prospects of Kolkata's Chinatown / Rishika Mukhopadhyay -- Rue de la Résistance / Patrick Mudekereza -- Un/shared heritage: the artwork MONUMENT in Dresden as a controversial subject / Benjamin Häger -- New zones for old buildings: a daydream about unlocking hidden potentials / Stephan Becker and Tassilo Letzel -- Forced labour: the Testmony app by Berlin History Workshop / Cord Pagenstecher -- Tracking Dar es Salaam / Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen -- The potential of Dar es Salaam's historical buildings and the need for an open dialogue / Aida Mulokozi, Rachel Lee and Diane Barbé -- Community voices and museums in Brazilian favelas / Erica de Abreu Gonçalves and Marcelo Lages Murta -- Tell me about "your heritage": oral history as a tool to raise awareness of built heritage and to rethink architecture / Vittoria Capresi -- Daladala diaries / Rehema Chachage -- How to map coexistence in an urban landscape: an alternative guide to the city of Copenhagen / Maj Horn -- Stories. A third track in the heritage discourse / Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper and Anne-Katrin Fenk -- Communicating unwanted heritage? The case of the Technical City Hall in Frankfurt am Main / Monika Motylinska -- The lie of the land / Michelle Monareng -- When space becomes a place: the RASTER : BETON Festival in the large housing estate of Leipzig-Grünau / Juliane Richter and Hannah Sieben -- Heritage activation: reclaiming the present and future city in Flint, Michigan / Stephen Zack and Jerome Chou -- Gyms in Dar / KUNSTrePUBLIK and Jan van Esch -- A year in the Sertão: university, artistic creation and community in Brazil's interior / Ana Luisa Carmona Ribeiro -- Heritage walks: a first step in urban heritage activism in Mumbai / Shraddha Bhatawadekar.

"Things don't really exist until you give them a name traces contemporary urban heritage discourses and practices across the globe. From Dar es Salaam to Berlin, via Istanbul, Flint and Kolkata, a wide range of voices connects to heritage debates. Artists, curators, and activists as well as historians, architects, planners and urban researchers address the urban heritage conundrum: Although heritage is claimed to have the power to achieve social cohesion and galvanise urban communities, it is intrinsically contested and divisive. Through fresh perspectives, concepts, methods and tools rather than a belief in absolute aesthetic and material values, this book argues for a more citizen-centered and rights-based approach to heritage which could help to make cities more just and inclusive"--Back cover.