Melhuish, Clare; (2022) Heritage in urban development: materialising claims to urban space in Doha and Kingston. In: Giblin, John D and Cross, Charlotte, (eds.) Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development. Routledge: Abingdon, UK.

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This chapter critiques the mobilisation of urban heritage narratives and practices in the service of development models which reflect the continuing influence of the Global North in shaping the characteristics of progress in former colonial and neocolonial contexts. It focuses on two case study cities, Doha, Qatar, and Kingston, Jamaica, in order to consider the threats posed to the stability and sustainability of urban communities, livelihoods and lifeways by the implementation of such models of heritage-driven urban development in contrasting but comparable urban contexts. Firstly, it describes the post-war entanglement of heritage policy and practice with urban planning and development in post-war Europe, and the tensions between elite and local claims to urban space in these processes. Secondly, it argues that these processes have become entwined in international development processes, through the deployment of hegemonic colonial heritage narratives in urban redevelopment to attract international investment and tourism to cities formerly considered to lie at the ‘periphery’ of modernity. Finally, it examines the discourses and actors that enable these processes to circulate across international networks, their local manifestations in distinct urban and regional contexts, and the problems they present for urban sustainability.

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