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The chapter offers a brief description of the subject of the volume. It introduces the hypothesis of heritage through the heterotopic lens, of heritage as heterotopia , and identifies the main arguments of this approach, along with the main perspectives involved—heritage theory, conservation and restoration theory, and urban and architectural theory—in order to identify the coordinates and functioning algorithms that can create, shape or condition the heterotopic character of the heritage object.

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    Among the multiple existing translations of Michel Foucault ’s 1967 essay, this research has employed the variant offered by Michiel Dehaene and Lieven De Cauter in their volume Heterotopia and the City: public space in a postcivil society, Routledge, 2008.

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    Holtorf, Cornelius (2018) Conservation and heritage as future-making. ICOMOS University Forum. pp. 1–13. ISSN 2616-6968, http://openarchive.icomos.org/1857/1/6_Holtorf.pdf, accessed November 2018.

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Spanu, S. (2020). Introduction. In: Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18259-5_1

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