TY - JOUR A1 - Bockelmann, Leo T1 - Impacts of Change: Analysing the Perception of Industrial Heritage in the Vogtland Region JF - Urban Planning N2 - Beyond metropolitan areas, many peripheral regions and their cities in Europe have, in manifold ways, been significantly shaped by industrialisation. In the context of the relocation of industrial production to other countries over the last decades, the question has been raised as to the role this heritage can play in futural regional development as well as the potential local identification with this history. Hence, this article seeks to analyse the perception of the industrial heritage in the Vogtland region, located alongside the border of three German federal states and the Czech Republic. It inquires as to the perception of the industrial heritage by the local population and related potential future narrations. Based on spontaneous and explorative interviews with local people as an empirical base, a discrepancy between the perception of the tangible and intangible dimensions of the industrial heritage can be observed. On the one hand, the tangible heritage like older factories and production complexes are seen as a functional legacy and an “eyesore” narrative is attributed to them. On the other hand, people often reference the personal and familial connection to the industry and highlight its importance for the historical development and the wealth of the region. But these positive associations are mainly limited to the intangible dimension and are disconnected from the material artefacts of industrial production. KW - Vogtland KW - Technisches Denkmal KW - Regionalentwicklung KW - industrial heritage KW - perception KW - regional development KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2023 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230524-63814 UR - https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/6025 VL - 2023 IS - Volume 8, No 1 SP - 30 EP - 38 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lissabon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Damir, Mirhan A1 - Meyer, Martin A1 - Aziz, Hellen T1 - Patterns of Detachment: Spatial Transformations of the Phosphate Industry in el-Quseir, Egypt JF - Urban Planning N2 - The establishment of phosphate mines and processing plants by Italian entrepreneurs in el-Quseir in 1912 revitalized a town that had faced a steady decline after the opening of the Suez Canal and re-linked it to the world economy. To this day, the now defunct industrial site occupies a large section of physical el-Quseir and plays a key role in its identity. In this article, we explore the impact of the company’s successive industrialization and deindustrialization based on archival research, interviews, and mapping. By tracing physical changes on-site and in the city of el-Quseir from the founding of its phosphate industry until today, as well as the historical and current interactions of citizens with the industrial facilities, we hope to better understand the “cluster value” of the industrial plant in quotidian life and the effect of the vacuum left behind after the termination of production. As machinery and buildings are slowly eroding in the absence of expressed interest by the former Italian and current Egyptian owners, we aim to discuss the relationship between the citizens and their el-Quseir phosphate plant as a crucial element of its heritage value at the local level. KW - Ägypten KW - Industriekultur KW - Italien KW - Bergbau KW - Egypt KW - industrial heritage KW - Italy KW - mining KW - phosphate industry KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2023 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230524-63805 UR - https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/6053 VL - 2023 IS - Volume 8, No 1 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lissabon ER -