Russian university of transport (MIIT), Russia, Moscow, sevell1@rambler.ru
The article deals with the problem of the emergence and existence of the phenomenon of city heritage. The goal is to analyze the phenomenon of city heritage as a social practice that has a powerful impact, firstly, on the perception of the image of a particular city by society, and secondly, on social groups associated with this city. In the course of the study, the author used the approach to city heritage as a collective imaginary. City heritage is considered from the point of social groups’ intangible activities, during which a certain value or symbolic value is attached to a particular urban object or event. The social groups permanently associated with the process of creating and reshaping the urban heritage are city officials and city residents. While official representatives are busy shaping the city identity, the urban residents are those who give this identity a symbolic and value meaning. The author concludes that the urban heritage is not a monolithic and unchanging whole, but an endless social process, which, on the one hand, is under the constant influence of the social groups participating in it and, on the other hand, directly affects these groups.
city; heritage; social practice; social group; identity
Download textFor citing: Klepikova L.V. (2022). The phenomenon of the city heritage as the social practice. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 4(52), pp. 182-190. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2022.04.13