Small Town Resilience and Heritage Commodification

Luďa Klusáková was a professor at the Faculty of Arts, Institute of World History, at Charles University for more than 40 years and directed the Seminar of General and Comparative History from 2000 until her passing in 2020. She graduated from two programmes, history and French, at CUFA.Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo is an architect. She has done her PhD in architecture, Masters in architecture and historical heritage and Masters in sustainable city and architecture. She works as a research fellow in the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage.

• Jaroslav Ira: Luďa Klusáková (*1950– †2020) – Jaroslav Ira: Foreword – Luďa Klusáková and Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo: Principles for heritage- based resilience in small towns facing the global era – Lars Nilsson: Can small towns survive in a global world? The cases of Avesta and Söderhamn – Réka Horeczki: Does the development history influence how we think about small towns? – Mónica Jimena Ramé: Corredor Bio- Comechingones, an innovative regional scale agreement among small towns – Paola Pellegrini: Networking of small communities for heritagization – Consuelo Isabel Astrella: Railway: From global infrastructure to local heritage. The case of the historic railroad Avellino- Rocchetta in Southern Italy – Jan Krajíček: Balancing between local and global: Heritage presentations of central European small towns (Case of Telč and Bardejov) – Elena Elts: Entry into the UNESCO club: The experience of the Ulyanovsk region – Katja Maaria Huovinen: Touristification of historic urban centres in the Southern Italian Salento region – Blanca Del Espino Hidalgo – Luďa Klusáková: Heritage characterization and strategies for resilient small towns – Note on authors.