Open AccessUrban roofscapes in transition - the case of Graz/Austria
Author(s) -
Walter Zsilincsar
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
dela - oddelek za geografijo filozofske fakultete v ljubljani
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1854-1089
pISSN - 0354-0596
DOI - 10.4312/dela.21.505-518
Subject(s) - redevelopment , zoning , urban regeneration , geography , old town , environmental planning , gentrification , center (category theory) , urban planning , perspective (graphical) , space (punctuation) , compact city , economic geography , archaeology , regional science , economy , civil engineering , engineering , visual arts , economics , art , computer science , chemistry , crystallography , operating system
By the example of the Austrian city of Graz whose old town has been declared a world he-ritage site in 2000 attention shall be focused on the more or less “unnoticed” changes of the historic roofscape that can be observed and that should attract more interest from a geogra-phical (creation of new living space, attraction of new social groups to the city-center), pla-nning and urban zoning (redevelopment of the building and functional structures) or archi-tectonic (urban conservation) perspective.