For an Intangible Urban Planning. Culture as an Engine for Development

The goal is to make a contribution to the understanding of the interdependencies between culture and urban development. The conditions are ripe to build an adequate conceptual and operational systematization so that culture becomes the engine for the development of the territory. We start from knowledge, from the fragility of the historical heritage, monitoring the risks and enhancing the opportunities to intervene in a structural and strategic way, in compliance with the rights of the communities established by assuming the principle according to which knowledge and use cultural heritage are fully part of human rights. The Faro Convention intended to promote a broader understanding of cultural heritage and its relationship with the communities that produced and hosted it, recognizing “cultural heritage” as the set of resources inherited from the past, reflected of values and beliefs, and the “patrimonial community” as a group of people who attribute value to that heritage