Land use planning and the evaluation of the cultural built heritage (original) (raw)

Over the past five decades, cultural heritage policies in Italy have failed to in-clude systematic territory-based strategies. Today, despite a lively debate on de-centralisation, territory is still seen in mere juridical and administrative terms, which amounts to being not perceived at all. Instead, policies for valorisation and cost-effective management of the cultural heritage basically require an appropriate territorial dimension. Defining such a dimension is not an easy task, both on the institutional and on the conceptual and theoretical level. That definition is best approached from an integrated medium-long term planning vision of the strategic goals at stake in the territory govern-ance. In this planning vision, strategic goals and means to achieve them are re-lated in a logically-framed program structure. Identification of the strategic goals of a new cultural heritage policy has three preconditions: first, a better co-ordination of the public subjects involved; second, a ...