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Between Planning and Heritage: Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas
Between Planning and Heritage: Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas

Author(s): Pablo González, Alfredo Macías Vázquez
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: cultural parks; national heritage areas; spatial planning; cultural heritage; development

Summary/Abstract: The number of cultural parks and heritage areas is increasing in Europe and the United States. Those are spreading over other areas where the economic sectors related to tourism and leisure gain weight. Heritage areas or parks are heterogeneous initiatives that place cultural heritage at the heart of spatial planning policy and economic development, aiming at the reinvention of large territories and local community participation in planning. Their relevance stems from their potential in uence on the territorial con guration of broad regions and their impact upon the articulation of traditional protected areas. Notwithstanding this, they have attracted scant academic attention so far.

  • Issue Year: 21/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 33-46
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English