Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...

Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...

What does heritage mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people and ideas are v...

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting literal...

Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the...

How does museum location shape the interpretation of an art object by critics, curators, art historians, and others? To what extent is the value of...

Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few ...

Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the...

This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from th...

Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of ...

Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage status brings a...

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts orga...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

This title was first published in 2002.In this age of globalization, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society movements and coa...

A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum examines how the National Museum of Korea, as a national repository of material culture and the states...

The Historical Web and Digital Humanities fosters discussions between the Digital Humanities and web archive studies by focussing on one of the lar...

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciousl...

Drawing together many stories from the archives of difficult events and volatile histories, Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories a...

Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over the past decade...

The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores new research and practice in museum design. Placing a specific emphasis on social responsibility, ...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in t...

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecur...

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present...