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recording best practices
improves the quality and use of the built environment in the instant surroundings of the site
Adaptive reuse practices foster the improvement of the quality and use of the built environment in the instant surroundings of the site, by considering it closely linked of its cultural, environmental, social and economic features and needs (Leeuwarden Declaration 2018). In particular, social inclusiveness is a crucial aspect of the physical and economic regeneration process, where the improvement of the quality and use of the built environment could contribute in parallel to an improvement of the social capital of the area (Pendlebury et al. 2004). Therefore, locals become more aware of their renovated neighborhood, assist and participate eagerly in the caring of the built environment (Alföldi et al. 2019) and foster a continuous, suitable and compatible use of the site that is a crucial aspect for this improvement process. These aspects allow to overcome the adaptive re-use practices from their usual and unique circle of tourism. This prevent negative effects (e.g. gentrification, real estate values rise, social exclusion, expulsion process etc.), and intend quality, in the context of interventions on built heritage, beyond the only physical and technical matters at the level of single area, by considering as a precondition of quality the recognition of heritage as a common good (Icoms 2019).
Key references
- Alföldi, György, Melinda Benkő. And Gábor Sonkoly. 2019. “Managing Urban Heterogeneity: A Budapest Case Study of Historical Urban Landscape”. In Reshaping Urban Conservation. The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action, edited by Ana Pereira Roders, Francesco Bandarin, 149-166. Berlin: Springer.
- ICOMOS. 2019. “European quality principles for EU-funded interventions with potential impact upon cultural heritage.” Paris: Manual. ICOMOS International.
- Leeuwarden Declaration Adaptive Re-Use of the Built Heritage: Preserving and Enhancing the Values of Our Built Heritage for Future Generations. 2018. Available at: https://www.acecae.eu/uploads/tx_jidocumentsview/LEEUWARDEN_STATEMENT_FINAL_EN-NEW.pdf
- Pendlebury, John, Tim Guy Townshend. And Gilroy Rose. 2004. “The conservation of English cultural built heritage: a force for social inclusion.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, 10(1), pp. 11-31.
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