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Community involvement and military heritage conservation: a case study of the demolition of the Antwerp sixteenth-century fortifications

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This paper focuses on the case study of the nineteenth-century demolition of the sixteenth-century Antwerp fortifications (Belgium), more specifically on the various actors and motives behind the nineteenth-century debate and quest for both the demolition and preservation of this military heritage.
Book: Defence Sites. Heritage and Future 2012
Series: WIT Transactions on The Built Environment
Pages: 267-278
Number of pages: 12
ISBN:978-1-84564-590-8
Publication year:2012
Keywords:community involvement, urban action group, urban history, monument conservation, 19th century