Focusing on heritage and the uses of the past in the plural ethnic and cosmopolitan environment of Mediterranean cities, this volume offers new insights exploring the concepts of urban culture, memory, and monuments in different case studies and in theoretical terms.

Marco Folin is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Genoa.

Heleni Porfyriou is Senior researcher of the National Research Council of Italy.

The Multi-Ethnic Heritage of Mediterranean Cities: An Introduction Part 1: Urban Monuments and Divided Memories from the 19th to 20th Centuries 1. Urban Monuments in Diverse Cities 2. Dividing and Ruling a Mediterranean Port-City: The Many Boundaries Within Late 19th-Century Port Said 3. Middle Eastern Jews and the Urban Ecology of Late Ottoman Palestine 4. Ottoman Banal Cosmopolitanism: Salonica at the End of Ottoman Rule (1908-1912) Part 2: Uses of the Past on the Scene of Composite Cities 5. Cosmopolitan Practices: Lives, Mercantilism and Nations in the Growth of Multi-Ethnic Trieste (18th-20th Centuries) 6. The Urban Expansion of Rijeka as a Reflection of the City's Multi-Ethnic Society in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries 7. Remembering Sissi's Escape: Nostalgia Marketing in the Mediterranean Part 3: Cultural Heritage in Post-War Scenarios 8. Cosmopolitan Heritage?: Post-War Reconstruction and Urban Imaginaries in Sarajevo and Beirut 9. Symptomatic Architecture: Markings of Presence, Difference, Fear, and Trauma 10. The City [Un]divided: Forms of Urban Organization in Naba'a District - Bourj Hammoud (Beirut)