Cities, Heritage and Transformation

This book series addresses contextual and global urban challenges and opportunities that cities in historic regions face within the process of urban transformation, linked with their historic past. It publishes peer reviewed books on the relationships between the built environment, urban transformation and cultural heritage, whether to be tangible or intangible, overarched by the notion of resilience and sustainable development. Special attention is given on real-life under-explored topics. Challenging existing assumptions and disciplinary divides, the series takes an interdisciplinary position and brings together innovative researches from different areas within Geography, Social Sciences and Humanities.

The aim is to create a knowledge hub for academics and practitioners, researchers and research organisations, as well as managers and policy makers worldwide, presenting advances and case studies, which connect academia to practice.

The series benefits from the existing and growing Silk Cities’ network, as well as ongoing collaborative activities Silk Cities undertake as part of its intellectual leadership on the subject matter.

The series is open for empirical, theoretical, and methodological high-quality contributions, which advance the global understanding on the subject matter. The areas covered in the series include but are not limited to the following subjects:

• Cities and intangible cultural heritage
• Community participation in managing urban heritage
• Urban history
• Urban heritage
• Cultural memory, society, and the built environment
• Development management in historic contexts
• Disaster management in historic cities
• Disaster risk reduction and resilience of historic cities and societies
• Disaster recovery and reconstruction
• Environment and historic cities
• Governing historic cities
• Geotourism and geoheritage
• Historic contexts and complex urban systems
• Post-crisis reconstruction and recovery
• Smart historic cities
• Sustainable heritage tourism
• Urban Silk Roads
• Urban economy in historic cities
• Sustainable urban heritage
• Urban conservation
• Urban design and public spaces in historic context
• Urban planning of historic cities
• Urban morphology
• Urban transformation of historic cities
• Urban connectivity and Silk Roads
• Historic cities, urban policies, and territorial planning