Industrial Heritage. Concepts, holistic potential, organizational and legal foundations

The reference publication contains concepts, terms, approaches, practical methods applied to the heritage of the industrial era in Russia and abroad, information about organizations, basic international acts and conventions, Russian regulations related to industrial heritage. The book is addressed to researchers and practices, all those who are faced with many problems of studying, evaluating, preserving, restoring and adapting old production sites: culturalists, historians, specialists in preserving historical monuments, museum workers, architects, restorers, urbanists, developers. It can be useful to federal, regional, municipal authorities, cultural and urban planning bodies in understanding promising trends in the development of politics and practice of preserving historical industrial structures, complexes, landscapes.
The study was performed with the financial support of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Sverdlovsk region as part of the scientific project No. 20-49-660009 "Industrial Heritage of the Great Yekaterinburg: the methodology of studying, the principles of presentation, the updating of value"