Recently, the international scientific debate has paid great attention to the enhancement of interconnections between cultural heritage and its environment, recognizing the strategic role of cultural heritage in the sustainable development of a territory. Hangzhou Declaration highlights the need for a new combination of tradition (understood as a tangible and intangible cultural heritage) and innovation, for the resilience of communities to environmental disasters and climate change. “The appropriate conservation of the historic environment, including cultural landscapes, and the safeguarding of relevant traditional knowledge, values and practices, in synergy with other scientific knowledge, enhances the resilience of communities to disasters and climate change” (Hangzhou Declaration). States are also invited to "adopt an integrated approach to policies concerning cultural, biological, geological and landscape diversity”. Furthermore, Hangzhou Declaration recognizes the need to "raise awareness of the economic potential of cultural heritage and use it, and to consider the specific character and interests of cultural heritage in planning economic policies, in order to make full use of the potential of cultural heritage as a factor in sustainable economic development ". In modern and contemporary practice, strategies for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage rarely take into account the surrounding environment, limiting itself to the provision of episodic interventions, mostly punctual. Therefore, both because of too much sectorial and limited programming, and due to objective financial limits, the process proves to be unsustainable in the majority of cases. The present study intends to define a model of sustainable valorisation of the historical heritage through strategies to recover emblematic testimonies of the historical-cultural tradition, material and immaterial, 'developing' new potentials of 'fruition' of the territory, capable of capturing a new tourist demand, alternative to traditional destinations. The territory, on which the infrastructures of the present study insist, is full of attractors (more or less known) of a historical-archaeological, naturalistic-environmental, landscape, food and wine, predisposing factors for the potential implementation of strategies of sustainable reconversion. In addition to the 'physical' recovery of the existing infrastructures, can, at the same time, contribute to economic and social re-launching, elevating the site to a strategic junction of the entire territory of the Lattari Mountains and the Sorrento-Amalfi peninsula, the geographical characteristics of the site, of interchange and interception of a network of tangible and intangible paths. The objectives of the study are, therefore, of dual nature. On the large scale, through a strategy of regeneration of a portion of the urban fabric, with a strategy of sustainable development, triggering a wider process of redevelopment and territorial and environmental valorization; on the small scale, hypothesizing the possible reuse of brownfield structures, in view of the current policies of land consumption close to zero, through a methodological approach that takes into account the environmental sustainability aspects of the intervention.
Sustainable strategies for development of internal areas through the recovery and valorization of material and immaterial heritage
G. Di Ruocco;E. Sicignano;
2019-01-01
Abstract
Recently, the international scientific debate has paid great attention to the enhancement of interconnections between cultural heritage and its environment, recognizing the strategic role of cultural heritage in the sustainable development of a territory. Hangzhou Declaration highlights the need for a new combination of tradition (understood as a tangible and intangible cultural heritage) and innovation, for the resilience of communities to environmental disasters and climate change. “The appropriate conservation of the historic environment, including cultural landscapes, and the safeguarding of relevant traditional knowledge, values and practices, in synergy with other scientific knowledge, enhances the resilience of communities to disasters and climate change” (Hangzhou Declaration). States are also invited to "adopt an integrated approach to policies concerning cultural, biological, geological and landscape diversity”. Furthermore, Hangzhou Declaration recognizes the need to "raise awareness of the economic potential of cultural heritage and use it, and to consider the specific character and interests of cultural heritage in planning economic policies, in order to make full use of the potential of cultural heritage as a factor in sustainable economic development ". In modern and contemporary practice, strategies for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage rarely take into account the surrounding environment, limiting itself to the provision of episodic interventions, mostly punctual. Therefore, both because of too much sectorial and limited programming, and due to objective financial limits, the process proves to be unsustainable in the majority of cases. The present study intends to define a model of sustainable valorisation of the historical heritage through strategies to recover emblematic testimonies of the historical-cultural tradition, material and immaterial, 'developing' new potentials of 'fruition' of the territory, capable of capturing a new tourist demand, alternative to traditional destinations. The territory, on which the infrastructures of the present study insist, is full of attractors (more or less known) of a historical-archaeological, naturalistic-environmental, landscape, food and wine, predisposing factors for the potential implementation of strategies of sustainable reconversion. In addition to the 'physical' recovery of the existing infrastructures, can, at the same time, contribute to economic and social re-launching, elevating the site to a strategic junction of the entire territory of the Lattari Mountains and the Sorrento-Amalfi peninsula, the geographical characteristics of the site, of interchange and interception of a network of tangible and intangible paths. The objectives of the study are, therefore, of dual nature. On the large scale, through a strategy of regeneration of a portion of the urban fabric, with a strategy of sustainable development, triggering a wider process of redevelopment and territorial and environmental valorization; on the small scale, hypothesizing the possible reuse of brownfield structures, in view of the current policies of land consumption close to zero, through a methodological approach that takes into account the environmental sustainability aspects of the intervention.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
