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Heritage and Reconstruction: Different Perspectives

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Living Under the Threat of Earthquakes

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Heritage is the physical expression of the cultural identity of local communities and in most cases it is a key factor supporting the development of the local economy. Due to its own nature, heritage is a non-renewable patrimony to protect for the future generations. The purpose of this paper is to describe reconstruction issues for urban conservation in historic cities, which have been led to destruction by accident, because of flooding, earthquakes, storm, fires, and also war, pointing out the association between conservation and development. In so doing, the paper will focus on the case study of a city listed in the World Heritage List, Kathmandu. A further matter concerns the controversial approach of reconstruction: while restoration aims to bring a monument back to its original state or preserve from further damage, reconstruction instead is accomplished on buildings that are destroyed or constituted of just limited ruins, sometimes even requiring the construction of a new building. After the Second World War the patrimony of the European historic cities was severely damaged, making the population aware of their loss of cultural and national identity and opening the international debate on the proper techniques and theories that should be applied. When it comes to historical cities, rather than a single monument, it does not involve just the physical appearance and the historical value but might allow to reinstate the socio-economic condition and the cultural identity of a place after a period of decline.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

    Luigi Petti & Martina Di Mauro

  2. School of Built Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK

    Claudia Trillo

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  1. Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

    Jörn H. Kruhl

  2. Research Center for Applied Science and Technology (RECAST), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Rameshwar Adhikari

  3. Department for Civil- and Environmental Engineering, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Uwe E. Dorka

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Petti, L., Trillo, C., Di Mauro, M. (2018). Heritage and Reconstruction: Different Perspectives. In: Kruhl, J., Adhikari, R., Dorka, U. (eds) Living Under the Threat of Earthquakes. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68044-6_7

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