The UNESCO evolving and living heritage of the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin: Post-industrial landscape heritagization as a territorial healing process
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8 juillet 2022
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- isbn: 978-1-03-204934-2
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- doi: 10.4324/9781003195238
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Engineering, Mining Mines and mining Mining Deposits, Mineral Mineral deposits Mines and mining Mineral resources Mining Mining industry and finance Metal industries Extractive industries Extractive industry Mines and mining Mining industry Mining Natural scenery Countryside Landscape Scenery Scenic landscapes paysage représentation du paysageCiter ce document
Lucas Monsaingeon et al., « The UNESCO evolving and living heritage of the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin: Post-industrial landscape heritagization as a territorial healing process », HAL-SHS : géographie, ID : 10.4324/9781003195238
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The Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin of France is characterized by a landscape shaped by two centuries of intensive coal mining. This includes large-scale neo-natural sites such as slag heaps but also canals and railroads, industrial buildings, community facilities, and miners’ housing.The shutdown of the mines in 1990 left behind it a post-industrial landscape in decline and a state of change, whose conservation raised many questions: the living dimension of this heritage, still inhabited and in full mutation, being hardly compatible with a conservative approach. In 2012, this mining area of 3,943 hectares became a World Heritage Site, listed as an “organically evolved and continuing cultural landscape”: an example of the scalar and typological turning point in the global heritagization process, and of the emerging topic of post-mining sites in the world.Ten years after the UNESCO nomination, this chapter aims to analyse the specificities of the heritagization of this post-industrial landscape, and the issues and the stakes of management and preservation that this raises for the stakeholders and professionals of the conservative sector. This case study illustrates that a dynamic approach to heritage can participate in the repair of the living.