City and Community: Toward Revitalizing Historical Urban Legacy
City and Community: Toward Revitalizing Historical Urban Legacy

Summary/Abstract: The article provides a discussion about possibilities to preserve and revitalize urban heritage. The author emphasizes that currently we are dealing with consequences of industrial urban design that dominated during the second half of the last century. This kind of thinking and planning had significant conseqeunces on urban planning and urban design and has largely changed the face of cities in various parts of the world. Reconsideration of the idea of “usable past“ (once introduced by Lewis Mumford) might be helpful in preserving the legacy of traditional city and revitalizing the contemporary urban millieu. Small and middle-sized cities and towns might especially benefit from this kind of attitude, moreover so that despite of large cities that have a huge impact on urban discourse very many people in Europe and eslewhere still live in the cities that are not so large and thus potentially more able to integrate the city and the community in solving various issues.

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