Narrating the Urban Waterfront

The Role of Public History in Community Revitalization

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11664612
AutoresAndrew Hurley (0000-0003-1982-1987, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen28
Número4
Páginas19-50
Fecha de publicación2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Public Historian (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576
EditorialUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/tph.2006.28.4.19
OpenAlexW2069464774
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas13

In recent years, urban waterfronts have become effective settings for community-based public history projects. St. Louis, with a long tradition of historical commemoration on its waterfront, provides an opportunity to examine the trend toward grassroots public history in the context of broader urban redevelopment strategies and identify some of the difficulties encountered in constructing more socially inclusive historical narratives. In particular, the case studies reviewed here highlight the challenge of balancing internal community-building goals with the demands of heritage tourism. The case studies also suggest the enormous potential of grassroots public history to connect the residents of diverse metropolitan areas more meaningfully to the urban landscape and to one another

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Environmental planning · Geography · Grassroots · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Narrative · Political science · Public history · Redevelopment · Sociology · Tourism · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Public Administration · Rhetoric and Communication Studies