o:32289 Cultural Heritage as an Inspiration for Placemaking in the Historic City: A Transversal Approach en Abstract Many European cities are in crisis since most of them are struggling to socially and culturally move forward from the historic and recreational values that made them of interest to the global visitor. In 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) started assessing new forms of placemaking in the historic city through the UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape Approach. The same year, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) highlighted the importance of developing innovative and transversal approaches to examine cultural development in historic human settlements. Within this context, this chapter analyses placemaking in four European historic cities. Transversal approaches on how relational dynamics impact on the historic context will be scrutinized from the realm of the site-specific arts in the city of Belgrade (Serbia), for archaeology the case of analysis is in Bucharest (Romania), for architecture the context is Ávila (Spain) and for urban planning it is Hamburg (Germany). This transversal approach involves using different disciplines to comprehend placemaking from a polyhedral point of view. Therefore, it brings together complementary forms of heritage appropriation – including the construction of the heritage concept over time – methods and strategies that help integrate cultural expressions, practices and products as potential relational dynamics. To do so, we will define stakeholders such as minorities, communities and powerful entities and target groups. Methodologically, approaches will deepen the understanding of phenomenological, dynamic-relational and contextual notions of placemaking that help clarify how historic cities, tools and communities are all interconnected. The discussion will establish parallelisms between the experiences to clarify the implications of placemaking according to the field of approach and the prospects for those places. Cultural expressions and heritage regulation can provide new forms of appropriation and integration in permanent scenarios of the past. Accordingly, contemporary mutable relationships between places and society are at stake in the context of urban planning and the UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape Approach and in defining the future of historic cities. In conclusion, we point towards (1) imagining how placemaking and cultural heritage serve to delineate new forms of heritage-making in the historic city, and (2) to what extent this requires defining ethical forms of culture-based placemaking practices. Keywords cultural heritage – historic city – mutable places – heritage futures 1552099 10.1163/9789004542389_005 1552100 978-90-04-54238-9 E-Book 1552100 978-90-04-53510-7 2024-01-11T13:13:19.628Z 44 no 46 Juan A. Garcia-Esparza Universitat Jaume I, Spain, Castellón de la Plana, Spain 0000-0001-5780-5502 46 Carola Hein Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Delft, The Netherlands 0000-0003-0551-5778 46 Ljiljana Rogac Mijatovic Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, Serbia 8753767 0000-0001-8790-590X 46 Mircea Negru Spiru Haret University, Romania, Bucharest, Romania 0000-0001-6855-450X application/pdf 17766641 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:32289 no yes 1 70 1556235 111A01 Placemaking in Practice Volume 1,Experiences and Approaches from a Pan-European Perspective 1 37 59 Leiden, Netherlands Brill 2023