Urban Landscape Transformation vs. Memory
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 February 2026 | Viewed by 1166
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protection of cultural heritage; traditional architecture; landscape architecture; tourism; cultural landscape; post-disaster scape; soundscape; walkscape and space syntax
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Interests: post-disaster scapes; urbanscapes; urbanscape identity; landscape; architecture; memorialscapes
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Interests: streetscapes; walkability; urban landscapes; public space; memorials; space syntax; urban growth; historical routes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the Special Issue “Urban Landscape Transformation vs. Heritage”, we are pleased to announce the launch of a second volume, “Urban Landscape Transformation vs. Memory”.
Cities are systems composed of urban and natural landscapes with intangible and tangible layers, continuously developing and overlapping. Based on this perspective, layers of heritage and memory are inherent to urban transformation as a part of the continuous process of urban change. However, urban transformations can have different, possibly unwanted, outcomes.
As cities today face the consequences of rapid population growth and uncontrolled urbanisation, as well as the impact of environmental changes and disaster, there is growing pressure in terms of land resources and the limited usable land available in urban areas. Within this rapidly shifting, everchanging, and globally evolving urban context, rethinking the role of heritage and memory as an integral part of urban landscapes and land usage requires new attention, definitions, and comparisons.
Therefore, this Special Issue employs the term heritage urbanism, an internationally recognised scientific approach to the restoration and revitalisation of cultural, natural, and mixed heritage.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to address the following questions:
- How can urban landscape transformation contribute to the protection of heritage and influence the perception of memory?
- Does urban landscape transformation, in fact, transform heritage and memory?
- Can urban landscape transformation achieve an awarenes of memory and generate new heritage?
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that use comparative approaches to address the following themes:
- Urban landscape transformation and memory;
- Urban landscape transformation through heritage preservation;
- Urban landscape transformation as an opportunity to use heritage to support change towards sustainability and resilience;
- Urban landscape transformation as a catalyst for creating new heritage systems;
- Memory and the perception of heritage in urban landscape transformation;
- Awareness of heritage-related issues in urban landscape transformation;
- Modes and types of memorialisation in urban landscape transformation;
- Perception and awareness of lost/perserved landscape values in urban transfromation.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Bojana Bojanic Obad Scitaroci
Dr. Nerma Omićević
Dr. Tamara Zaninović
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban landscape transformation
- memorialisation
- heritage resilience
- active vs. passive land use
- cultural heritage
- natural heritage
- heritage urbanism
- forgotten urban layers
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- Urban Landscape Transformation vs. Heritage in Land (16 articles)
