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Defence sites II : heritage and future /
Containing the proceedings of the second International Conference on Defence Sites, Heritage and Future this book promotes the knowledge of the scale, design and functions of defence sites. It brings a better understanding of the issues raised by their redundancy and the implications of different di...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Southampton, UK ; Boston :
WIT Press,
©2014.
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| Colección: | WIT transactions on the built environment ;
v. 143. WIT transactions on the built environment. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Defence Sites II: Heritage and Future; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Section 1: Military heritage history; The ecological footprint and the evolution of some Roman sites on the Danube River; Military buildings: from being abandoned to reuse; "New life" for defence military architecture: the case of the sighting towers in Basilicata; Layout and shape of Dürer's Geschützrondellen in the Spanish defensive architecture: the horseshoe pattern in the Enlightenment; Juan Bautista Antonelli: the first example of Alicante's bastioned fortifications
- The controversies between Jacobo Fratín and Vespasian Gonzaga on the project of the citadel of Pamplona in the late sixteenth centuryThe fortification of Alicante designed by the engineer Ambrosio Borçano; Analysing nineteenth century military building typologies: an Australian perspective; How to preserve the First World War military heritage; Section 2: Transition from military to civilian life; Make art not war: defence sites find new life as centres of creativity; Adaptive reuse of military establishments as museums: conservation vs. museography
- From a military seaplane base to an international circuit: a study of Toko Seaplane Base as a controversial heritage siteSection 3: Castles and fortresses; Assessment of the masonry strength of the fortress in Terezin; Potential analysis of the Templar Castle of Monzón in Huesca, Spain as a tourist attraction; The red castle of Castellorizo: the island's strategic significance and the castle's historical representations; A recreational carrying capacity assessment of the 16th century Spanish Fort of Santiago on the Island of Chikly, Tunisia
- The culture of immanence in the re-use of revival architecture: a new life for Tafuri Castle in Sicily (Portopalo di Capo Passero, Syracuse, Italy)The Tunisian Wetlands Centre: modern uses for the Ottoman Fort of Borj El Loutani (Ghar El Melh); Preservation criteria applied to the case study of a 19th century fortress; Walled towns as defensive cultural landscapes: a case study of Alanya
- a walled town in Turkey; Section 4: Fortified cities; Urbanisation of former city fortifications in The Netherlands between 1805 and 2013
- Stratigraphic evidence in the ancient urban walls of Cagliari, Sardinia, ItalySection 5: Risk assessment; Conservation of defence heritage structures using corrosion protection techniques; Using RFID to detect UXO prior to repurposing land for civilian use; Section 6: Defence tourism; Accessibility to the historic defence sites of Oman for people with mobility impairment: the cases of the Nakhal, Al Hazm and Khasab fortifications; Conservation and development of military sites on Kinmen Island; Participation in and access to the defence heritage: some Swedish examples; Section 7: Case studies