Representing the "historical centre" of Bologna: preservation policies and reinvention of an urban identity. From: Urban History Review | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: De Pieri, Filippo; Scrivano, Paolo | COPYRIGHT 2004 Becker Associates. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract

This article analyzes the visual and textual representations of the "historical centre" of Bologna before and after 1969, the year when the first of the city's celebrated plans for the preservation of the ancient urban fabric were approved. In spite of the attempts made by architects and planners to precisely and "technically" define the object of the plans, the notion of "historical city centre" remained a vague and ambiguous one. Conflicting images of history...