Proceedings/Recueil Des Communications Année : 2023

From young city to historic city : the heritagisation of Pest city centre

Résumé

Since the 1960s, urban preservation has taken on a new dimension, with the need for a change of scale in Europe and North America: instead of protecting only monument buildings, preservation has been extended to larger territorial units. The concept of the historic city centre has developed in Pest at a pace that was in line with global and European intellectual movements, while taking into consideration specific local internal elements. Hungary’s ‘tumultuous’ history and the consequent almost total absence of architectural heritage became a recurrent theme in the journals of architecture and urbanism in the the 1960s. Thus, the urban heritage was considered both invisible and fragmented, transmitted and carried by concepts such as ‘townscape’, ‘landscape’, and ‘urban structure’, of which the boundaries were less defined, even transcendental, irrelevant, in contrast to the Western European concepts articulated around characteristics such as ancientness, homogeneity, and architectural unity. In this context, the challenge of creating urban heritage was therefore sought in the construction of a spatial and temporal continuum. The paper aims to identify those spatial references elaborated by the Hungarian architectural discourse of the 1950s and 1960s that were used to redefine certain urban spaces and consequently to shape their heritagisation process, with a particular focus on the city centre of Pest.

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hal-04960981 , version 1 (21-02-2025)

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Gábor Oláh. From young city to historic city : the heritagisation of Pest city centre. DOCONF2023 - Facing Post-Socialist Urban Heritage / Proceedings, BME Urbanisztika Tanszék, pp.286-295, 2023. ⟨hal-04960981⟩
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