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Old Plovdiv as Project: Restoration, Administration and Memory
A story on the specialized Old Plovdiv administration, Lamartine House and how restoration turned the quarter into a public historical stage.
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The Quarter as Institutional Task
The record on the specialized Old Plovdiv administration shows that heritage is not preserved by admiration alone. It needs institutions, budget decisions, expertise and public use. The story of the Old Town therefore needs the administrative history of preservation as well.
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Lamartine House and Visible Restoration
Lamartine House is a useful example of heritage visible through a specific site. The restoration archive image gives the reader not only an attractive view, but a trace of process: work on a building, change in material environment and later public memory.
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From Houses to Network
Old Plovdiv is not one house, but a network of streets, courtyards, religious places, schools and museums. In the platform, that means every story should point to individual places and sources. The quarter is read not as scenery, but as a system of evidenced urban layers.
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1928: The Earthquake, Damage and Visual Memory
Archive images from the Chirpan earthquake and damage in Plovdiv show how disaster becomes evidence for urban vulnerability and recovery.
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From European Month of Culture to European Capital of Culture
1999 and 2019 show how Plovdiv used cultural programmes, venues and European frameworks to tell its story to a wider public.
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The Fair City: Exhibition, Industry and Modernity
From the first agricultural and industrial exhibition in 1892 to the postwar revival of the fair, Plovdiv built a public image as a city of exchange and economy.