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Cultural Territorial Systems

Landscape and Cultural Heritage as a Key to Sustainable and Local Development in Eastern Europe

  • Makes geographically broad comparisons through Europe and beyond
  • Links to more theoretical material and to online resources through the VIVA network
  • Supplies very concrete and practical knowledge on cultural heritage management with practical examples from Eastern Europe
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction and Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Concept of Heritage

      • Francesco Selicato
      Pages 7-12
    3. Local Self-sustainable Development

      • Francesco Rotondo
      Pages 13-19
  3. Lessons Learned from Planning and Management Practices on Safeguarding and Revitalisation of Minor Historic Centres in Eastern Partnerships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
  4. Territorial Cultural Systems: A Different Approach to Cultural Heritage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Territorial Cultural Systems: Possible Definitions

      • Francesco Selicato, Claudia Piscitelli
      Pages 75-84
  5. A New Approach to the Management of Cultural Territorial Systems: Integrated Cultural Territorial Plans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Building Local Cultural Landscapes

      • Paolo Colarossi
      Pages 133-180
  6. First Experiences in Eastern Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

About this book

This book seeks to enhance the cultural dimension of sustainable development and particularly focuses on minor historic centers and their natural and rural landscapes. In a society becoming ever more globalized, without territorial restrictions in the production of goods and able to reproduce in China the goods and product characteristic of South American crafts (to mention just two extremes), the only element that can still be contextualized is heritage identity: the result of close integration between cultural assets, intangible assets and settled communities.

 Thus, heritage identity is one of the few elements, together with natural resources, which has the potential for economic development that is still firmly rooted in places and local populations. These towns are often the centerpiece of urban landscapes and geographical areas with original features, not always but often as individual places within networks of minor historical centers linked by shared history, traditions and/or natural elements (rivers, forests, river systems or other natural elements). They are outside the major tourist networks, even if now there is a budding interest in the touristic exploitation of these environments. So, they are the right places to pursue a sustainable and local development with a cultural perspective.

 This book is a product of the VIVA_EASTPART project (Valorisation and Improving of management of Small Historic Centres in the eastern PARTnership region), under the EU-funded “ENPI Eastern Partnership” program. It complements the more practically-focused work that is in production from this group, more focused on empirical approaches to the development of minor historic centers of the nations involved. Though the book has been influenced by this research and working experience, the authors are solely responsible for the content and opinions presented.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Francesco Rotondo

  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ingegn, Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Francesco Selicato

  • Planning Ion Mincu, University of Architecture and Urba, Bucureşti, Romania

    Vera Marin

  • architecture and urban planning off, Association for Urban Transition, Bucuresti, Romania

    Josefina Lopez Galdeano

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Territorial Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Landscape and Cultural Heritage as a Key to Sustainable and Local Development in Eastern Europe

  • Editors: Francesco Rotondo, Francesco Selicato, Vera Marin, Josefina Lopez Galdeano

  • Series Title: Springer Geography

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20753-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20752-0Published: 02 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79315-3Published: 07 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20753-7Published: 19 April 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2194-315X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 386

  • Number of Illustrations: 146 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Cultural Management, Development Economics

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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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