IN-PERSON: Prague – Section B

Abstract

The built heritage of cities can be understood as a series of overlapped stories woven together in the persistence and change of urban landscapes. However, how physical elements of the built environment have been knitted to produce this heritage is not evident and increases the difficulty of managing heritage for policymakers and designers. A resilience approach can help unravel patterns and relationships that contribute to understanding heritage in urban landscapes. How can a resilience approach be instrumented for the heritage management of urban landscapes? This paper presents a resilience approach to heritage by analysing the relationship between the persistence and change of physical elements of the urban landscape within and across scales. The case study is the analysis of San Miguel of Tucuman, a city in Argentina whose urban landscape has undergone a series of changes since its foundation in the XVII century. The methodology applies the theoretical framework of ecological resilience to the study of urban landscapes. The method proposed uses timelines to observe the adaptive cycle and to build a panarchy, or multiscale comparative analysis, of the morphological changes of San Miguel de Tucuman from 1685 to 2016. The results show that applying an ecological resilience framework to urban landscapes can help analyse and understand the development of built environments according to their inherited resilience capacity.