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- Title
TBILISI DESTROYS ITS PAST.
- Authors
Bergfors, Sara
- Abstract
The article reports on restoration and Disneyfication in Tbilisi, Georgia. It mentions the preferred architectural style of the country's former President Mikheil Saakashvili involving ultra-modern shapes in steel and glass as well as his building campaign for attracting investors and tourists. Furthermore, British writer Peter Nasmyth notes the Old Town of the city wherein a third of its area was gone due to the restoration program of the government which was considered fierce by critics. INSET: New threat to Tbilisi's cultural heritage.
- Subjects
T'BILISI (Georgia); PRESERVATION of architecture; SAAKASVILI, Mixeil, 1967-; ARCHITECTURAL design; NASMYTH, Peter
- Publication
Baltic Worlds, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 3-4, p29
- ISSN
2000-2955
- Publication type
Article