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Ancient traces in the urban fabric – reinterpretation as a model of archaeological heritage presentation

The paper explores the possible influence of archaeological heritage and archaeological data on urban planning, i.e. the role of archaeology in the contemporary world and the possibilities of presenting and preserving historic traces in the urban tissue. Based on the analysis of selected cases, the model of reinterpretation is recognized as one of the possible means of presenting and using archaeological heritage. This is a conditional type of archaeological heritage presentation, as it does not include the presentation of visible remains, but rather their urbanistic or architectural reinterpretation in the form of streets, squares, pedestrian paths, passages, construction lines, architectural design, landscape design etc. Use of this type of presentation is applicable to presentation and urban integration of specific types of archaeological heritage in which the application of classical forms of in situ presentation is hampered (urban grid, centuriation, historic roads and paths, historic landscapes, etc.). The research included an analysis of the urbanistic reinterpretation of the ancient Roman centuriation in the case of the planned city district Split III in Split (Croatia) ; urbanistic reinterpretation and integration of the ancient Roman road in the case of the Sopnica-Jelkovec housing complex in Zagreb (Croatia) ; the architectural reinterpretation of the Roman forum and the Late Antiquity building in the case of commercial and residential complex in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The paper further explores the possibility of applying this type of presentation in the case of enhancing urban integration of archaeological heritage in the Spanish city of Alcalá de Henares, whose historic centre is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The remains of the ancient town of Complutum are located outside the historic city centre, in the area of expansion of the city in the 20th century (setting of WHS). Archaeological remains of the ancient town are partially presented in an archaeological park as visible remains, while its parts in the built up area, which partially preserved the ancient urban grid, are not presented and interpreted. The main streets of the ancient town, the cardo and the decumanus, exist in the spatial sense in the contemporary city as today's streets and parks, and their presentation and content reinterpretation are possible. The aim is to attract more visitors to the archaeological area, achieve better social integration of archaeological heritage and local inhabitants and create, by using archaeological heritage, particularity and recognisability of the area, enhance identity, show historic continuity and raise the overall quality of life in the city district with poor social structure.

urban planning ; archaeological heritage ; urban integration ; reinterpretation ; presentation

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