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Supporting Intangible Subcultural Heritage with (Good) Urbanism
When examined in the metropolitan context, intangible cultural heritage is bound to its environment. This is particularly true of subcultural heritage. Fringe cultures present a unique situation - marginalized from the dominant cultural heritage record which better aids the protection of mainstream tangible heritage. This renders issues of intangible subcultural heritage a spatial concern. In this sense, intangible cultural heritage can be understood by analyzing its environment. The space that hosts intangible subcultural heritage, having produced the social and political circumstances about it, is responsible for how subcultural heritage is shaped, especially in the urban context. With this scope in mind, it is natural to focus on aspects of subculture that have been woven into the urban landscape. This should reveal how intangible connections are shaped by the North American city. The framework suggested is that of urbanism, a spatial analysis of the urban landscape concerned with how urban inhabitants interact with their built environment (Graham and Marvin 2001:60). Here, the study of intangible cultural heritage takes that concept and complicates it. It is then crucial to investigate how the built environment is enabled to host intangible subcultural heritage, an environmental consideration that will in turn shape how citizens interact with the space. In looking at these culture-space relationships, the concept of ‘good urbanism’ is most relevant. This view, which focuses on sustainable and community-involved urban design (Ellin 2012:2), will be used as a lens to guide the interpretation of how intangible subcultural heritage and its built environment interact with each other. This involves both how subcultural activity manipulates the urban environment to the needs of its community and how spatial limitations mould the community given environmental circumstances. This relationship must then be built on reciprocity and a sense of symbiosis
Supporting Intangible Subcultural Heritage with (Good) Urbanism
When examined in the metropolitan context, intangible cultural heritage is bound to its environment. This is particularly true of subcultural heritage. Fringe cultures present a unique situation - marginalized from the dominant cultural heritage record which better aids the protection of mainstream tangible heritage. This renders issues of intangible subcultural heritage a spatial concern. In this sense, intangible cultural heritage can be understood by analyzing its environment. The space that hosts intangible subcultural heritage, having produced the social and political circumstances about it, is responsible for how subcultural heritage is shaped, especially in the urban context. With this scope in mind, it is natural to focus on aspects of subculture that have been woven into the urban landscape. This should reveal how intangible connections are shaped by the North American city. The framework suggested is that of urbanism, a spatial analysis of the urban landscape concerned with how urban inhabitants interact with their built environment (Graham and Marvin 2001:60). Here, the study of intangible cultural heritage takes that concept and complicates it. It is then crucial to investigate how the built environment is enabled to host intangible subcultural heritage, an environmental consideration that will in turn shape how citizens interact with the space. In looking at these culture-space relationships, the concept of ‘good urbanism’ is most relevant. This view, which focuses on sustainable and community-involved urban design (Ellin 2012:2), will be used as a lens to guide the interpretation of how intangible subcultural heritage and its built environment interact with each other. This involves both how subcultural activity manipulates the urban environment to the needs of its community and how spatial limitations mould the community given environmental circumstances. This relationship must then be built on reciprocity and a sense of symbiosis
Supporting Intangible Subcultural Heritage with (Good) Urbanism
Warner, Logan (author)
2024-08-09
Journal of Undergraduate Studies at Trent (JUST); Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Undergraduate Studies Fall 2023; 38-46 ; 1913-0945 ; 1913-0937
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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