Cultural Heritage on the Urban Peripheries: Towards New Research Paradigms

This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and build upon that cultural heritage.

María García Hernández is Professor of Human Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid. She directs the research group ＂Tourism, Heritage and Development＂.

Maria Gravari-Barbas is an architect and geographer. She is Professor at the Institute for Research and High Studies of Tourism (IREST) and Director of the Interdisciplinary Team for Tourism Research (EIREST), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on the contemporary production of urban spaces in relation to tourism, architecture, heritage and festive phenomena.