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Chair of Heritage Conservation

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Heritage Transformation at the Periphery. War-Damaged Urban and Rural Areas at the Beginning of the 20th Century in Romania and Moldova

National Archives Chişinău, Folder 706/1/515, page 19
War damage, Chişinău

Issues related to heritage in conflict, with a focus on Eastern Europe, are explored by Dr. Laura Demeter in her research ‘Heritage Transformation at the Periphery. War-Damaged Urban and Rural Areas at the Beginning of the 20th Century in Romania and Moldova’. This project aims to address the complexity of war damages and their lasting impact on the built environment in the context of the Second World War in Romania and Bessarabia.

The interdisciplinary research aims to contribute to providing a comprehensive understanding of the war damages in the Romanian urban and rural context (1940-1945) and it focuses on understanding the legacies of war damages in various cities in Romania (e.g. Bucharest, Braşov, Iaşi, Ploieşti) and in Bessarabia (Chişinău), in addition to the rural environment in Moldova.

 

Publications

Articles

  • L. Demeter: Panciu (1940): A Model for the Planned Reconstruction of the Earthquake Damaged Romanian Small Towns, in: ‘Cartographies of Catastrophes: Examining Disaster Documentation and Reconstruction Plans in the Past and the Present’, L. Demeter C. Enss, P. Kisiel, and C. Ludwig (Eds.), KU Leuven Press – open access, print, and peer review- submitted.
  • L. Demeter: Earthquake Damaged Towns and Villages under Authoritarian Regimes: Reconstruction and Preservation Practices in Panciu and Soveja (1940-1945), Conference Proceedings AKTLD - (due September 2024, open access and print - in review).
  • L. Demeter: The Systematisation of the Multi-Ethnic Historic City of Kronstadt. A Critical Analysis, in: ‘Cities in Transition. A Review of Historical Discourses, Planning Decisions and Conservation Strategies’, TU Wien Press, Peer-review, open access and print - work in progress.
  • L. Demeter: Heritage in Context: Public Monuments and Restoration Practices in Romania, (1919–1945), in: ’The Fate of Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Monuments: From Architectural Conservation to Identity Construction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, Cosmin Minea, Kristina Jõekalda (Eds.), CEU Press, peer-review - work in progress.

Edited Volumes

  • L. Demeter, C. Enss, P. Kisiel, und C. Ludwig (Eds.): ‘Cartographies of Catastrophes: Examining Disaster Documentation and Reconstruction Plans in the Past and the Present’, KU Leuven Press, open access, print, and peer review - work in progress.
  • B. Knauer, L. Demeter (Eds.): Cities in Transition. A Review of Historical Discourses, Planning Decisions and Conservation Strategies, TU Wien Press, peer-review, open access and print - work in progress.