Narrating the Urban Waterfront

The Role of Public History in Community Revitalization

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11664612
AutoresAndrew Hurley (0000-0003-1982-1987, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume28
Fascículo4
Páginas19-50
Data de publicação2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Public Historian (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576
EditoraUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/tph.2006.28.4.19
OpenAlexW2069464774
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências 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