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In her influential book Uses of Heritage(2006), archaeologist LaurajaneSmith introduced the term ‘authorized heritage discourse’ (AHD) to describe thewestern heritage practice which since the late nineteenth century has developedtowards a dominant position as a ‘universalizing’ discourse of our own time,and “privileging monumentality and grand scale, innate artefact/sitesignificance tied to time depth, scientific/aesthetic expert judgement, socialconsensus and nation building”. Rather heritage can be seen as a process, a performance (Crouch, 2010), an act of communication (Dicks, 2000) and a set of relationships with the past undertaken at certain sites and places. In this sense, all heritage is intangible. Spatial aspects of cultural heritage: (1)Interrelatedness of places and people; (2) Landscape and its composite ‘scapes’,e.g. urban heritage-scape; (3) Interrelatedness of virtual and realspace; and (4) Fluid spaces emerging from growingmobility of individuals enabled by ICT.Unplanned, half-finished structures that were built by necessity after the war of 1974 in the intra-muros historical city of Nicosia are appropriated by migrant communities (Nicosia, Cyprus 2019).ReferencesCrouch, David, “The Perpetual Performance and Emergence of Heritage”, in Waterton, E., Watson S. (eds.), Culture, Heritage and Representation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010: 57–71. Dicks, Bella, Heritage, Place and Community. University of Wales Press, 2000.Smith, Laurajane, Uses of Heritage. New York: Routledge, 2006. 