Urban Resilience and Heritage Management

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

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Department of Architecture and Design, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Department of History, Theory and Architectural Composition, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
Interests: urban and architectural history; urban planning; architectural intervention; heritage management; heritage values preservation; historic centres
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School of Architecture, University of Alcala, Colegio Convento del Carmen Calzado, Calle Santa Úrsula, 828801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Interests: heritage; museums; contemporary architecture; urban studies; urban landscape
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Dear Colleagues,

The multiple dynamics that our cities, infrastructures, and territories are currently experiencing have an environmental, technological, and social base in constant transformation. The research framework is claimed to produce new indicators, tools, and methodologies for the purpose of implementing new policies.

In this sense, there is a more developed awareness of the risks our cities face, and the challenges set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These inputs force knowledge to ensure urban resilience as a component of growing and grant it inexcusable relevance.

For these reasons, cultural and natural heritage has become an indispensable factor of social cohesion for the achievement of more resilient cities, territories, and landscapes. The evolution of its management models with a clear social and environmental impact has been transformed into various demands for the scientific and research community.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to provide insights about the capacities of heritage to increase the resilience of our cities, territories, and landscapes, representing a wide field of possibilities, in particular, the search for balances between small and medium cities, with respect to large metropolitan areas. It is worth noting the patrimonial plurality of identity factors and cultural assets of a very varied type and entity. The combination of the traditional and permanent urban legacy, with new realities of urban growth and the assimilation by cities of extraordinary events, even of an ephemeral nature (Olympic Games, International Exhibitions), outline the diversity of urban contexts and their multifunctionality.

This richness can become an essential component to reduce the impact of and overcome land-related risks and threats that are complex to manage. Thus, those derived from climate change, depopulation in rural areas, or tourist pressure, among other issues, should be highlighted, particularly in historic centres and coastal areas. They affect especially significant assets that can become qualified actors in more resilient cities, territories, and landscapes.

The methodological advances produced in the processes of generating knowledge about heritage stand out for their innovative potential in their tangible and also intangible definition. Advances supporting using new technologies and in particular geomatics, GIS, and data management in an interdisciplinary framework that provides new keys to urban planning and heritage management are especially valued.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
  • Theoretical proposals for a renewed concept of resilience;
  • New alliances in the management of cultural heritage and natural heritage to achieve the SDGs and improve the resilience of cities and communities;
  • Initiatives that improve living conditions in urban and rural areas in the face of the deterioration of nature and the proliferation of natural disasters ;
  • Historical urban and production landscapes: culture, heritage, and infrastructures as factors in favour of resilient territories;
  • Cultural and natural heritage in the face of depopulation in rural areas, in search of a liveable and sustainable future;
  • Contributions of traditional architecture to improving urban resilience;
  • The interurban social imbalance and the qualified experiences of contemporary urbanism (garden cities, Athens Charter, CIAM) as heritage;
  • The aptitude of modern urban forms to generate more resilient cities;
  • Alternative uses and resistance of heritage to tourist pressure: sustainability versus touristification and gentrification in urban centres and coastal areas;
  • Development of emerging cultural resources, heritage typologies, and renewal of cultural infrastructure (museums, visitor centres, and other cultural spaces) as tools for intercultural cohesion, inclusiveness, and better urban governance;
  • The incorporation of territories resulting from large ephemeral events (Olympics, International Exhibitions, other singular events): adaptation capacities, urban renewal, and resilience;
  • Challenges and opportunities for World Heritage Sites to guide universally shared practices in heritage management for a sustainable use of culture;
  • The shared land: management of historical memories and controversial heritage as tools for the promotion of an inclusive and resilient citizenship;
  • Stakeholders and actors from heritage towards a scenario of collaborative participation of agents in urban planning, land ordinance, and landscape design;
  • Intelligent planning and management of the city and territory with the use of artificial intelligence, geomatics, GIS, and big data: analysis and monitoring of urban risks and vulnerability;
  • The formation of a catalogue of good practises in terms of heritage management of more resilient cities: indicators, tools, and methodologies;
  • The use of cost–benefit analysis to convenience judgment development procedures for enhancing urban resilience and heritage management;
  • The ability to use methodologies and tools of a multicriteria nature to compare different urban intervention possibilities;
  • The necessity of capturing the interests of several suitable stakeholders while designing urban and historic assets projects.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Maria Rosaria Guarini
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Mosquera-Adell
Dr. Clara Mosquera-Pérez
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Keywords

  • cities recovery
  • cultural property potentials
  • good practices
  • heritage stakeholders and actors
  • heritage values and indicators
  • information technologies and systems
  • resilient cities and territories
  • sustainable development goals
  • urban planning and politics
  • withstanding risks and vulnerability

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Exploring Bare Ownership Supply of Housing in Urban Environments
by Maria Rosaria Guarini, Alejandro Segura-de-la-Cal, Francesco Sica and Yilsy Núñez-Guerrero
Land 2025, 14(1), 144; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010144 - 12 Jan 2025
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Europe faces a situation where housing represents the main savings for most of the population, while the majority of homeowners are seniors aged over 65. The desire to supplement pensions has led to a growing interest in generating income from these savings, with [...] Read more.
Europe faces a situation where housing represents the main savings for most of the population, while the majority of homeowners are seniors aged over 65. The desire to supplement pensions has led to a growing interest in generating income from these savings, with bare ownership emerging as a notable option. This solution makes it possible to transfer the ownership of the home while maintaining usufruct rights for the duration of the owner’s lifetime. This paper examines the status of bare ownership in the city of Rome by web scraping the house offers published on web portals and segmenting those offered as bare ownership. Machine learning analysis based on neural networks and binary logit regression allows for the observation of the particular behavior of the housing supply in bare ownership; it shows the different intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics that determine this Real Estate segment. The findings highlight the development of a growing market strongly influenced by the location of assets. These findings provide valuable insights for both investors and urban planners regarding changes in urban dynamics processes. Full article
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Cultivating Slow Curating in Times of Acceleration
by Alice Semedo and Fabiana Dicuonzo
Land 2025, 14(1), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010101 - 7 Jan 2025
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This paper introduces key ideas and issues in the changing debates on heritage practices and sustainability. It draws attention to the capacities of heritage to activate and unfold new meanings and increase the resilience of territories and landscapes—namely depopulated ones—through slow curating processes. [...] Read more.
This paper introduces key ideas and issues in the changing debates on heritage practices and sustainability. It draws attention to the capacities of heritage to activate and unfold new meanings and increase the resilience of territories and landscapes—namely depopulated ones—through slow curating processes. We will argue that slow curating processes cultivate ‘slower’ ways of knowing, act as seedbeds of emergence and as catalysts to transformation that recuperate the pieces of a fragmented territory while also helping to re-locate its existence—its past, its present and its future—in balance with and within a constellation of living networks. Through heritage criticality, we will investigate territory interpretation and intervention examples that adopt disruptive, cross-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary approaches, including artistic, architectural, urban, performative, and curatorial practice, as effects and methods of slow curating taken as a public activity. We will pay special attention to its production contexts (reasons, subjects…), to what and how resonance dispositions and axes are produced within these non-linear public acts, and how the co-presence of past and the future is extended so heritage public acts may engender new forms—of knowledge, being…—and become a resource for current times. Full article
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Cultural Landscape and Heritage as an Opportunity for Territorial Resilience—The Case of the Border Between Castile and Leon and Cantabria
by María Teresa Pérez Cano and Ainhoa Maruri Arana
Land 2024, 13(12), 2233; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122233 - 20 Dec 2024
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The loss of functions in Spanish rural areas has triggered territorial inequalities and injustices in a highly complex geographical environment. After the COVID-19 pandemic and in a context of overpopulation in large cities, the rural area emerged as a space of opportunity for [...] Read more.
The loss of functions in Spanish rural areas has triggered territorial inequalities and injustices in a highly complex geographical environment. After the COVID-19 pandemic and in a context of overpopulation in large cities, the rural area emerged as a space of opportunity for more sustainable territorial rebalancing. Despite the evident tendency towards their population emptying, they are places endowed with their own qualities and specific values, currently in danger, especially in border areas between the regions, which are far from centralised nuclei and generate conflicts due to the transfer of powers to them from the State. Among these values is cultural heritage, the safeguarding and enrichment of which depends on the balance between the landscape and the society that hosts it. This work focuses on access to archaeological sites—an important form of heritage prior to the establishment of actual regional divisions, in the depopulated frontier between Cantabria and Castile and Leon—whose potential is presented by their intrinsic relationship with the territory and their ability to identify historical landscapes, advocating for future sustainability on a territorial scale. With all of the above, a cultural landscape delimitation is proposed between both regions that share common characteristics and problems, promoting synergies and territorial readings by analysing the territorial assets of these interior areas so that their potential is not diminished. Full article
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Urban Heritage Resilience: An Integrated and Operationable Definition from the SHELTER and ARCH Projects
by Matthias Ripp, Aitziber Egusquiza and Daniel Lückerath
Land 2024, 13(12), 2052; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122052 - 29 Nov 2024
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Resilience, initially a concept rooted in psychology, has traversed disciplinary boundaries, finding application in fields such as urban planning and development since the 2010s. Despite its broad application, most definitions remain too abstract to allow their practical integration into urban planning and development [...] Read more.
Resilience, initially a concept rooted in psychology, has traversed disciplinary boundaries, finding application in fields such as urban planning and development since the 2010s. Despite its broad application, most definitions remain too abstract to allow their practical integration into urban planning and development contexts. Addressing this challenge, the European research projects SHELTER and ARCH offer a practicable integration of resilience with planning and development practices surrounding urban heritage. Following a systemic approach to resilience, both projects integrate perspectives from urban development, climate change adaptation, disaster risk management, and heritage management, supported with tools and guidance to anchor resilience in existing practices. This paper presents the results from both projects, including similarities and differences. Full article
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Mapping Heritage Engagement in Historic Centres Through Social Media Insights and Accessibility Analysis
by Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Pablo Martí, Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista and Mariana Huskinson
Land 2024, 13(12), 1972; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121972 - 21 Nov 2024
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Accessibility to cultural heritage is crucial for fostering inclusive urban environments and preserving historical and cultural identities. This study addresses the gap between heritage conservation and urban accessibility with two objectives: (1) to identify tangible and intangible cultural heritage elements based on user [...] Read more.
Accessibility to cultural heritage is crucial for fostering inclusive urban environments and preserving historical and cultural identities. This study addresses the gap between heritage conservation and urban accessibility with two objectives: (1) to identify tangible and intangible cultural heritage elements based on user preferences from the social media platform Foursquare, and (2) to assess the impact of accessibility on public engagement using Space Syntax analysis. The historic centres of Valencia and Alicante, Spain, were chosen as case studies for their rich cultural heritage and dynamic urban contexts. A novel urban cultural heritage (UCH) taxonomy was developed to categorise heritage elements into buildings, public spaces, elements, and events/festivities. Findings indicated that social media data offer valuable insights that complement official heritage catalogues, providing a richer understanding of cultural assets and public engagement. The results showed that higher public engagement was concentrated (1) in and around key heritage sites, (2) in heritage sites that combine cultural significance with multifunctional public use, (3) in public spaces and urban nodes that are highly accessible and well connected to the urban structure, (4) in areas where clusters of heritage elements are located close together, and (5) around sites of architectural prominence and cultural significance. This emphasised that accessibility is as important as historical significance for attracting public interest. The study suggested that improving accessibility and integrating social media data with traditional methods can enhance heritage conservation strategies and support sustainable urban development by fostering stronger identity values within cities. Full article
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Street Design Elements That Influence Mental Well-Being: Evidence from Southern Chile
by Antonio Zumelzu, Cristóbal Heskia, Marie Geraldine Herrmann-Lunecke, Gastón Vergara, Mariana Estrada and Constanza Jara
Land 2024, 13(9), 1398; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091398 - 30 Aug 2024
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The aim of this article is to assess which elements of street design impact subjective well-being in the central area of a city in southern Chile, based on residents’ perceptions. Fifty-six semi-structured walking interviews were conducted to obtain records of pedestrians’ self-reported perceptions [...] Read more.
The aim of this article is to assess which elements of street design impact subjective well-being in the central area of a city in southern Chile, based on residents’ perceptions. Fifty-six semi-structured walking interviews were conducted to obtain records of pedestrians’ self-reported perceptions of their environment. To categorize the emotions reported in the interviews, the Circumplex Model of Affect was used to organize and classify the declared emotions. The results revealed that street design elements such as heritage buildings with well-maintained facades with intense colors in their coatings, spacious front gardens, wooden facades, low fences, wide sidewalks, soft or rubberized floors, and trees with colorful fruits and leaves promote a greater dominance of high-intensity positive emotions such as enjoyment, joy, happiness, liking, and pleasure. In contrast, neglected or abandoned building facades, blind fronts with graffiti or murals, high fences, tall buildings, treeless or vegetation-free sidewalks, untrimmed bushes, and narrow and poorly maintained sidewalks promote negative emotions of both high and low activation such as fear, anger, dislike, rage, unsafety, discomfort, and stress. The article concludes with the development of an emotional map of momentary experiences, identifying places of well-being and discomfort in public spaces. The value of this map is discussed as a tool to inform urban design in the promotion of healthier pedestrian environments in Latin American cities. Full article
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Geoheritage of the Iconic EN280 Leba Road (Huila Plateau, Southwestern Angola): Inventory, Geological Characterization and Quantitative Assessment for Outdoor Educational Activities
by Fernando Carlos Lopes, Anabela Martins Ramos, Pedro Miguel Callapez, Pedro Santarém Andrade and Luís Vítor Duarte
Land 2024, 13(8), 1293; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081293 - 15 Aug 2024
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The EN280 Leba Road is a mountain road that runs along the western slope of Serra da Leba (Humpata Plateau) and its outstanding escarpments, connecting the hinterland areas of the Province of Huila to the coastal Atlantic Province of Namibe, in Southwest Angola. [...] Read more.
The EN280 Leba Road is a mountain road that runs along the western slope of Serra da Leba (Humpata Plateau) and its outstanding escarpments, connecting the hinterland areas of the Province of Huila to the coastal Atlantic Province of Namibe, in Southwest Angola. In the Serra da Leba ranges, as in Humpata Plateau, a volcano-sedimentary succession of Paleo-Mesoproterozoic age known as the Chela Group outcrops extensively. This main unit records a pile of sediments with a thickness over 600 m, overlying a cratonic basement with Eburnean and pre-Eburnean granitoids. This sequence is overlain in unconformity by the Leba Formation, which consists of weakly deformed cherty dolostones rich in stromatolites. Along the EN280 Leba Road, in the downward direction, were inventoried and characterized eight sites that, by their exceptional geological content and the singularity of their geoforms, are worth being defined and formalized as geosites: (1) traditional mining clay pit in the Humpata Plateau (post-Eburnean Paleo-Mesoproterozoic claystones); (2) old lime oven of Leba (post-Eburnean Meso-Neoproterozoic cherty dolostones with stromatolites); (3) viewpoint of the Serra da Leba (post-Eburnean Paleo-Mesoproterozoic volcano-sedimentary formations and Eburnean Paleoproterozoic granitoids); (4) vertical beds at the beginning of the descent (post-Eburnean Paleo-Mesoproterozoic volcano-sedimentary formations); (5) slope of the fault propagation fold (post-eburnean Paleo-Mesoproterozoic volcano-sedimentary formations); (6) reverse fault in granitoid rocks (Eburnean Paleoproterozoic granitoids); (7) Dolerite Curve (Eburnean Paleoproterozoic granitoids and dolerites); (8) ductile simple shear zone (Eburnean Paleoproterozoic granitoids and mylonites). These sites were primarily selected using the results of fieldwork (observations, measurements, reproduction of representations, and creation of models), interpretation of remote sensing data, and data from previously published bibliographies and cartography. A quantitative assessment of the selected sites to be preserved through their classification as geosites (integration in a geoconservation strategy) was proposed. The first position in the numerical assessment is occupied by the landscape dimension geosite “Viewpoint of the Serra da Leba”. This position is conferred, mainly, by its high geological, use, and Management values, being therefore considered the place with the highest geoheritage value in the studied area. Based on the previous characterization and evaluation, several field activities were proposed to be included in a guidebook, highlighting aspects such as landscapes, outcrops, rocks, structures, fossils, and georesources. The high scientific, didactic, and aesthetic values of these geological contexts and their high degree of geodiversity justify their integration into a geoeducational transect, contributing to the appreciation and awareness of the geological heritage of Serra da Leba, as well as to its promotion and scientific and educational dissemination. Full article
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Resilience Assessment of Historical and Cultural Cities from the Perspective of Urban Complex Adaptive Systems
by Tianyu Chen, Guangmeng Bian and Ziyi Wang
Land 2024, 13(4), 483; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040483 - 9 Apr 2024
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Due to the increasingly complex global climatic environment and the rapid development of China’s urban construction, China’s historical and cultural cities are experiencing an external impact as well as internal fragility. Representing the capacity of the urban system to address impact and pressure, [...] Read more.
Due to the increasingly complex global climatic environment and the rapid development of China’s urban construction, China’s historical and cultural cities are experiencing an external impact as well as internal fragility. Representing the capacity of the urban system to address impact and pressure, resilience can effectively guarantee the sustainable development of historical and cultural cities. A scientific and reasonable resilience assessment system can guide the resilience construction of historical and cultural cities in an effort to effectively counter the impact and pressure they face. Therefore, it is necessary to research the resilience of historical and cultural cities. On the basis of the complex adaptive system (CAS), and by applying multiple assessment indicators, this paper established a resilience assessment system for China’s historical and cultural cities, comprising 38 indicators in six dimensions, to analyze the characteristics and the influencing mechanisms of the resilience of the historical and cultural cities and to reveal the inherent logic underlying their complex presentation. Using six historical and cultural cities in east China as an example, the study applied the assessment system to assess and analyze the different resilience levels of the cities. The comprehensive resilience of Changzhou City obtained the highest score at 0.64, indicating a higher degree of resilience; the scores of Yantai City, Huzhou City, and Nantong City were 0.59, 0.54, and 0.50, respectively, representing moderate degrees of resilience; the scores of Zhongshan City and Quzhou City were 0.44 and 0.40, respectively, exhibiting a lower degree of resilience. Moreover, the factors that result in an unbalanced development of urban resilience were explored from the perspectives of economy, system, and culture. The paper contains some significance in guiding the development of the resilience of historical and cultural cities. Full article
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Bridges over the River Turia: Genesis of the Urban History of Valencia
by María-Montiel Durá-Aras, Eric Gielen, José-Sergio Palencia-Jiménez and Josep Lluís Miralles-García
Land 2023, 12(12), 2175; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12122175 - 16 Dec 2023
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The foundation of the city of Valencia was created by the Romans on an island formed by the River Turia, strategically located between Carthago Nova (Cartagena) and Tarraco (Tarragona), and is directly connected to the sea. This raises the question of how the [...] Read more.
The foundation of the city of Valencia was created by the Romans on an island formed by the River Turia, strategically located between Carthago Nova (Cartagena) and Tarraco (Tarragona), and is directly connected to the sea. This raises the question of how the elements of access to the city came about and how the river and its bridges might have affected its evolution. This article delves into the study of the origins of the city, with a time frame that extends into the 11th century, the time at which an event took place that confirms one of the major changes in the city’s urban morphology: when it stopped being an island. The intrinsic relationship that exists between bridges and main communication routes as fundamental elements to the access of an island is the driving force behind this article, which is based on research, until now undone, on the existence and construction of the first bridges in the city of Valencia and their influence on the city’s subsequent development. This paper will start by studying the founding and location of this city and will then analyze the communication routes existing at the time. It will also study the communication routes that were created later and how all of them were forced to cross a fluvial accident, the River Turia. For this purpose, the number of bridges built until the city ceased to be an island have been identified, and analyses of their typology, location and who was responsible for them has been carried out to study how they may have affected the normal flow and evolution of the riverbed and their possible influence on the city’s development. Full article
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Survey of Residents of Historic Cities Willingness to Pay for a Cultural Heritage Conservation Project: The Contribution of Heritage Awareness
by Hongyu Li, Jie Chen, Konomi Ikebe and Takeshi Kinoshita
Land 2023, 12(11), 2058; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12112058 - 12 Nov 2023
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The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage (ARCH) is an innovative, sustainable approach to architectural heritage conservation; however, current research on the subject lacks public awareness surveys from the bottom-up, and the non-use value of ARCH buildings has not been clarified. We investigated the [...] Read more.
The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage (ARCH) is an innovative, sustainable approach to architectural heritage conservation; however, current research on the subject lacks public awareness surveys from the bottom-up, and the non-use value of ARCH buildings has not been clarified. We investigated the willingness to pay for ARCH among 1460 residents of the Nara Prefecture using a contingent valuation method and clarified the factors affecting the willingness to pay through an ordered logistic regression model. The results of this study showed that 75.1% of the respondents were willing to pay for ARCH projects, which were valued at JPY 6036.13 (USD 41.15) per person per year excluding zero payments and JPY 4531.23 (USD 30.89), including zero payments. In addition, residents’ attitudes toward ARCH and heritage awareness positively influenced both the willingness to pay and its magnitude, while the degree of place attachment was a positive predictor of willingness to pay. This study demonstrates the role of public participation in cultural heritage conservation, emphasizes the importance of heritage awareness, and provides a reference point for policy makers in promoting public participation in ARCH buildings, which contributes to the implementation of a recycling approach to heritage conservation in a sustainable context. Full article
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Patterns of Public Spaces in Spanish Mediterranean Touristified Historic Centres Based on Their Activities: Case Study of Malaga
by Francisco Conejo-Arrabal, Carlos Rosa-Jiménez and Nuria Nebot-Gómez de Salazar
Land 2023, 12(8), 1546; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081546 - 4 Aug 2023
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Historic centres are undergoing a series of urban transformations as a consequence of the processes of touristification, and they are mainly located in pedestrianised public spaces. The consequences of the touristification of public space are manifested in its privatisation via the occupation of [...] Read more.
Historic centres are undergoing a series of urban transformations as a consequence of the processes of touristification, and they are mainly located in pedestrianised public spaces. The consequences of the touristification of public space are manifested in its privatisation via the occupation of catering locals and changes to the uses of adjacent buildings. Recent literature has studied the touristification of the neighbourhood unit in an exhaustive way, but it has only studied specific variables of the public space unit. Therefore, an exhaustive study is needed to bring these variables together regarding the public space unit. This study proposes a methodology for categorising public space in terms of use, with the aim of identifying different patterns of activities with respect to touristification. To this end, a system of use indicators is defined according to the public space and adjacent buildings. This methodology has been tested in the Historic Centre of Malaga, analysing a sample of 54 public spaces and categorising them into five different patterns. This categorisation could facilitate the planning and regulation by local administrations of activities in the public space of the Historic Centre. Full article
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