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  • Urban heritage walks in a rapidly changing city: tensions between preservation and development on the Gold Coast, Australia

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    Cantillon, Zelmarie
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    Cantillon, Zelmarie A.
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    This article examines the emergence of urban heritage walks on the Gold Coast, Australia. As a popular beachside mass tourism destination, the Gold Coast has a longstanding reputation for rapid development and for lacking historical and cultural depth. In this context, heritage walks present an opportunity to reorient the city’s identity and to stage a sense of heritage in the urban environment. Focusing on a case study of the Gold Coast’s Southport Heritage Walk (SHW), this article aims to analyse the discursive, material and political dimensions of urban heritage walks, and how practices of heritage unfold in places marked ...
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    This article examines the emergence of urban heritage walks on the Gold Coast, Australia. As a popular beachside mass tourism destination, the Gold Coast has a longstanding reputation for rapid development and for lacking historical and cultural depth. In this context, heritage walks present an opportunity to reorient the city’s identity and to stage a sense of heritage in the urban environment. Focusing on a case study of the Gold Coast’s Southport Heritage Walk (SHW), this article aims to analyse the discursive, material and political dimensions of urban heritage walks, and how practices of heritage unfold in places marked by rapidly changing urban landscapes and resident populations. Drawing on observational fieldwork, as well as interviews with key individuals involved in designing the walks, the article discusses the dominant narratives of history and urban identity enshrined in the SHW, and how these discourses are encountered and interpreted within the context of the contemporary materialities of lived space. Although the SHW aims to highlight the city as a place with a rich history and heritage, the walk’s missing interpretive markers and scarce remnants of built heritage instead emphasise the city’s ongoing tensions between development and preservation.
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    Journal Title
    JOURNAL OF HERITAGE TOURISM
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2019.1618315
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Heritage Tourism on 22 May 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2019.1618315
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Urban and Regional Planning
    Tourism
    Human Geography
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385947
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