Bringing new life to dismissed mining towns: Ecomuseum's sceneries in Italy, Japan and Namibia
| Autor: | Venditto Bruno |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Opera Ipogea (2020): 43–56. info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Venditto Bruno/titolo:Bringing new life to dismissed mining towns: Ecomuseum's sceneries in Italy, Japan and Namibia/doi:/rivista:Opera Ipogea/anno:2020/pagina_da:43/pagina_a:56/intervallo_pagine:43–56/volume |
| Popis: | This article introduces the new underground built asset's category of dismissed mining towns and links it the concept of ecomuseum. The paper is divided into two sections, initially the concepts of industrial heritage and ecomuseum applied to the mining towns are introduced and discussed, this part is then followed by the application of the ecomuseum concept to four dismissed mining town in Italy, Japan and Namibia. Dismissing mining represents an immense heritage that could be used to revive local communities and generate new activities based on the original economic uses and the historical value of the landscape. The extractive resource industries have played a contradictory role in the process of regional and national development, promoting the passage from a traditional to a modern industrial society in the case of western economies, while often retarding such process in the case of third world economies. Mining however is a dynamic industry, with a live span that can last for centuries or few decades, until reserves are depleted, or technical, market and political conditions change. As result towns grown around the mining sites, share the same fortune; a large number of them end up to be transformed into ghost towns, representing abandoned elements of an industrial heritage apparently useless. The dismissed mining towns of Carbonia, (Italy), Hashima's island, (Japan) and Kolmanskop (Namibia) are here analysed. The possibility to bring such mining towns to new life implementing the ecomuseum, and making them attractive in terms of space and cost while promoting the concurrently development of the local communities is proposed |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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