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Innovative Heritage-based Post-Crisis Urban Recovery Strategies

In the context of the recent global health crisis, cultural heritage has revealed a new potential as a resource for economic, health and social recovery. This Special Issue collects innovative and successful examples, strategies, models and principles where cultural heritage has developed this potential, attending to different dimensions such as digital innovation; urban resilience; urban development, and circular economy.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies, including those pertaining to Collections. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

Introduction: innovative heritage-based post-crisis urban recovery strategies
Guest editor: Christer Gustafsson, Uppsala University (SE), Uppsala, Swed; Matthias Ripp, Department for cultural heritage, Regensburg, Germany


  1. This article presents the virtual restoration of the Nine Eyes Watchtower, a significant cultural heritage site along the Great Wall. By applying the Seville Charter and digital technology, a detailed virtual ...

    Authors: Zongfei Li, Junshan Liu, Youqiang Dong, Miaole Hou and Xiaofen Wang
    Citation: Built Heritage 2024 8:22
    Content type: Project analysis articles Published on:

  4. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global mobility. ‘Lockdowns’ and travel bans have been used as control measures by international governments. Consequently, the ways that we use buildings have a...

    Authors: Cut Dewi, Matthew Rofe, Julie Nichols and Izziah Izziah
    Citation: Built Heritage 2023 7:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Resilience has become an increasingly important concept in the cultural heritage field, particularly in the aftermath of the unprecedented challenges the COVID-19 global pandemic brought. However, on a concept...

    Authors: Zachary M. Jones and Théodora Pappas
    Citation: Built Heritage 2023 7:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential transfer of a metamodel for heritage-based urban development (HBUD) in a postcrisis urban recovery scenario.

    Authors: Christer Gustafsson and Matthias Ripp
    Citation: Built Heritage 2022 6:29
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. In research and policies, the identification of trends as well as emerging topics and topics in decline is an important source of information for both academic and innovation management. Since at present polic...

    Authors: Sander Münster, Ronja Utescher and Selda Ulutas Aydogan
    Citation: Built Heritage 2021 5:25
    Content type: Research article Published on: