Creating Narratives of Resilience and Connection through Histories of Urban Environmental Decline and Recovery: The West Boathouse Project.
This article explores how heritage organisations can leverage environmental histories to challenge and renegotiate perceptions of urban and environmental decline through practices of care with communities. Using Glasgow Building Preservation Trust's (GBPT) work on the Rejuvenation of the West Boatho...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Historical Review Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 323 - 348 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Aug2025
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