European Urban Cultural Heritage Management after War
Journal: Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Year: 2024

The management of cultural urban heritage monuments in European cities after war is a matter that presents some interesting variations over time.It usually underlines a dual political manifestation, either as an attempt to reverse history, through a form of cultural "recovery" of monuments and encouraging a pre-war statement, either as an attempt to perpetuate the dark memory of the "atrocity" of the enemies through the preservation of the monument in form of a ruin, or in some cases as a kind o