Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54046 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/21
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Since the 1980s, the promotion of heritage values has gradually become a relevant issue for urban planning. Together with the emergence of new peripheries, inner-city areas and particularly old historic centres, affected by deterioration due to the recession of the last decades, have been the object of study and actions. Consequently, the need to turn the historic centres into areas of development for the market, through legislative measures and investments in infrastructure and services, and the re-evaluation of the heritage value of existing buildings, oscillated between policies which, linked to the mechanisms of economic and cultural globalization, promoted tourism as a source of revenue while striving to find alternatives to gentrification.
Subjects: 
urban planning
innovative planning
urban governance
decision-making
sustainable development
historic centres
heritage values
access to the city
JEL: 
O18
N90
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-256-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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