Securing Urban Heritage considers the impact of securitization on access to urban heritage sites. Highlighting specific changes that have been made, such as the installation of CCTV or the limitation of access to certain streets, plazas and buildings, the book analyses the impact of different approaches to securitization.

Introduction Part I: Agents and Forms of Agency 1. Community Involvement in Times of Social Insecurity 2. Participatory Matters: Access, Migration, and Heritage in Berlin Museums 3. Agents, Access, and Cultural Policies of Sharing in Kyoto City and Osaka 4. Urban Heritage, Communities, and Environmental Sustainability Part II: Technology, Heritage, and Access 5. Securitization through Digitalization and Visualization 6. Documenting Modernity 7. Urban Nuclear Reactors and the Security Theatre: The Making of Atomic Heritage in Chicago, Moscow and Stockholm Part III: Securing Urban Heritage in Time and Space 8. Fences and Defences: Matters of Security in the City Park, Budapest 9. Rewriting History: Interpreting Heritage in Saint Petersburg and Istanbul 10. Disregarding Youth Proposals: Intangible Heritage, Securitization and Soccer Fan Groups in México 11. (Re)activated Heritage: Negotiating Socialist History in the Urban Space of Luanda Conclusion