Buffers Beyond Boundaries: Bridging Theory and Practice in the Management of Historical Territories

by Alba Victoria Zamarbide Urdaniz

What is a buffer? Is it a control zone? Or is it rather a transition space, a blurred boundary? Since "buffer zones" were introduced in the late 1970s as a complementary protection layer to World Heritage sites, the dimensions of heritage have changed significantly; from physical to intangible, from defined to diffused. Now, buffers can present all these different characters, even at the same time.

Using buffers as the main connection thread,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2807612717
• ISBN13: 9782807612716
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.2"