The concept of heritage as inheritance, passed from generation to generation as a communal good, ... more The concept of heritage as inheritance, passed from generation to generation as a communal good, is increasingly under scrutiny in a globalised world. As time and space become ever more compressed, borders are redrawn and population churn accelerates, built legacies are not so footloose and often find themselves under new management. For heritage to survive, it needs to retain its value to a society that in many cases is not the same society that created it in the first place. The Ottoman Empire's presence has left an enduring legacy in the Balkans, including on the landscapes and urban forms in its successor countries. This paper explores, with reference to local examples, issues relating to the treatment and value of Ottoman-era heritage. It explores the original function of this heritage; its varied use through time; and how it has been rejected or adapted for use in the period since independence.
Interreg Green Pilgrimage Project 2017 - 2022, 2020
The Green Pilgrimage project is a five-year, €1.18M Interreg Europe project which brings together... more The Green Pilgrimage project is a five-year, €1.18M Interreg Europe project which brings together six regions in the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Romania to promote the integrated management and development of natural and cultural heritage. Its aim is to show how growth and development policies can economically exploit whilst, at the same time, protecting and enhancing natural and cultural heritage. The project has gathered best practice from across Europe with regard to how pilgrimage routes can support natural and cultural heritage while creating and nurturing rural jobs and commercial and developmental opportunities in a proportionate, sustainable manner. Such positive enhancements have included the promotion of low-impact tourism, digitalisation, pilgrim accommodation, and the strengthening of local traditions and place identity. This report summarises the learning and best practice from the Green Pilgrimage project. The report makes recommendations on how partners can implement their action plans to develop pilgrimage in their regions, and explains how these can be applied locally in order to achieve measurable impact through policy and practice.
In Santarém, as in several Portuguese historic urban centres, population decline and aging have c... more In Santarém, as in several Portuguese historic urban centres, population decline and aging have compromised social cohesion and economic vitality, and parts of the Historic Centre have visibly deteriorated, resulting in risks to the public of crumbling façades. Sustainable development in urban areas must involve a reorientation of spatial planning policies to integrate older areas into wider urban and regional development frameworks, considering them as part of the wider territory. This paper proposes that the operationalisation of the recommendations of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach can provide robust evidence, co-produced with local communities, supporting sustainable urban planning policies, and that such an approach is wholly consistent with EU and national planning and conservation legislation. Through focusing on the values, meanings and significance of place, the processes shaping the HUL of an empirical test neighbourhood, the Mouraria in Santarém, are brought into focus.
Em vários centros históricos urbanos portugueses, os desafios do declínio populacional e do envel... more Em vários centros históricos urbanos portugueses, os desafios do declínio populacional e do envelhecimento da população residente minaram a coesão social e a vitalidade económica.O desenvolvimento sustentável no ambiente histórico deve envolver uma reorientação das políticas de planeamento territorial para integrar áreas mais antigas em estruturas mais amplas de desenvolvimento urbano e regional, considerando-as como parte do território mais amplo em vez de unidades discretas. Isso também envolverá um diálogo próximo entre a formulação de políticas de planeamento técnico top-down e a experiência vivida bottom-up, para que a população local se possa envolver mais desde o início e durante todo o processo de formulação e implementação de políticas. Mas como é que isso pode ser feito? De que maneira podemos entender o ambiente histórico? E como podem os residentes locais contribuir para esse entendimento? Os conceitos de 'valores' e 'significado' do património serão cruciais neste processo.A abordagem Paisagem Urbana Histórica (HUL), conforme a definição de UNESCO (2011), compreende uma “abordagem abrangente e integrada para a identificação, avaliação, conservação e gerenciamento de paisagens urbanas históricas dentro de uma estrutura geral de desenvolvimento sustentável”. No entanto, é essencial que qualquer abordagem integrada seja adaptada especificamente às realidades locais, e perceber que cada área urbana tem culturas e identidades diferentes.Na cidade de Santarém, partes do centro histórico estão num estado de deterioração visível, e na Mouraria essas questões são particularmente agudas. Este estudo procura entender e questionar o estado atual, status, significado e valor – relativamente às considerações sociais, ambientais, culturais e económicas – desta zona, dando particular atenção à definição de uma abordagem integrada para a reabilitação. Advirão desta análise uma série de recomendações para apoiar uma estratégia positiva para a área no âmbito de políticas públicas integradas, que procurará atender aos objetivos gerais de desenvolvimento sustentável aos vários níveis.
In several Portuguese historic urban centres, the challenges of population decline and an aging residual resident population have undermined social cohesion and economic vitality. Sustainable development in the historic environment must involve a reorientation of spatial planning policies to integrate older areas into wider urban and regional development frameworks, considering them as part of, rather than separate from, the wider territory. This will also involve a close dialogue between top-down technical planning policy formulation and bottom-up lived experience, so that local people can be more involved from the beginning and throughout the process of policymaking and implementation. But how can this be achieved, through what means can we understand the historic environment, and how can local people contribute to this understanding? The concept of heritage ‘values’ and ‘significance’ are crucial in this process.The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, as defined by UNESCO (2011), comprises a ‘comprehensive and integrated approach for the identification, assessment, conservation and management of historic urban landscapes within an overall sustainable development framework’. But it is essential that any integrated approach is tailored to the realities of local circumstance, realising that each urban area has a different culture and identity. In the city of Santarém, parts of the “centro histórico” have visibly deteriorated, and in the Mouraria these issues are particularly acute. This study seeks to understand and interrogate the current state, status, significance and value - in terms of social, environmental, cultural and economic considerations - of this neighbourhood with particular attention to defining an integrated approach to rehabilitation and refining a transferrable model of evidence-based practice. Recommendations resulting from this evidence-based analysis, should they be implemented, will support a positive strategy for the area within integrated public policy and seeking to meet overall objectives for sustainable development at various levels of management.
The concept of heritage as inheritance, passed from generation to generation as a communal good, ... more The concept of heritage as inheritance, passed from generation to generation as a communal good, is increasingly under scrutiny in a globalised world. As time and space become ever more compressed, borders are redrawn and population churn accelerates, built legacies are not so footloose and often find themselves under new management. For heritage to survive, it needs to retain its value to a society that in many cases is not the same society that created it in the first place. The Ottoman Empire's presence has left an enduring legacy in the Balkans, including on the landscapes and urban forms in its successor countries. This paper explores, with reference to local examples, issues relating to the treatment and value of Ottoman-era heritage. It explores the original function of this heritage; its varied use through time; and how it has been rejected or adapted for use in the period since independence.
Interreg Green Pilgrimage Project 2017 - 2022, 2020
The Green Pilgrimage project is a five-year, €1.18M Interreg Europe project which brings together... more The Green Pilgrimage project is a five-year, €1.18M Interreg Europe project which brings together six regions in the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Romania to promote the integrated management and development of natural and cultural heritage. Its aim is to show how growth and development policies can economically exploit whilst, at the same time, protecting and enhancing natural and cultural heritage. The project has gathered best practice from across Europe with regard to how pilgrimage routes can support natural and cultural heritage while creating and nurturing rural jobs and commercial and developmental opportunities in a proportionate, sustainable manner. Such positive enhancements have included the promotion of low-impact tourism, digitalisation, pilgrim accommodation, and the strengthening of local traditions and place identity. This report summarises the learning and best practice from the Green Pilgrimage project. The report makes recommendations on how partners can implement their action plans to develop pilgrimage in their regions, and explains how these can be applied locally in order to achieve measurable impact through policy and practice.
In Santarém, as in several Portuguese historic urban centres, population decline and aging have c... more In Santarém, as in several Portuguese historic urban centres, population decline and aging have compromised social cohesion and economic vitality, and parts of the Historic Centre have visibly deteriorated, resulting in risks to the public of crumbling façades. Sustainable development in urban areas must involve a reorientation of spatial planning policies to integrate older areas into wider urban and regional development frameworks, considering them as part of the wider territory. This paper proposes that the operationalisation of the recommendations of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach can provide robust evidence, co-produced with local communities, supporting sustainable urban planning policies, and that such an approach is wholly consistent with EU and national planning and conservation legislation. Through focusing on the values, meanings and significance of place, the processes shaping the HUL of an empirical test neighbourhood, the Mouraria in Santarém, are brought into focus.
Em vários centros históricos urbanos portugueses, os desafios do declínio populacional e do envel... more Em vários centros históricos urbanos portugueses, os desafios do declínio populacional e do envelhecimento da população residente minaram a coesão social e a vitalidade económica.O desenvolvimento sustentável no ambiente histórico deve envolver uma reorientação das políticas de planeamento territorial para integrar áreas mais antigas em estruturas mais amplas de desenvolvimento urbano e regional, considerando-as como parte do território mais amplo em vez de unidades discretas. Isso também envolverá um diálogo próximo entre a formulação de políticas de planeamento técnico top-down e a experiência vivida bottom-up, para que a população local se possa envolver mais desde o início e durante todo o processo de formulação e implementação de políticas. Mas como é que isso pode ser feito? De que maneira podemos entender o ambiente histórico? E como podem os residentes locais contribuir para esse entendimento? Os conceitos de 'valores' e 'significado' do património serão cruciais neste processo.A abordagem Paisagem Urbana Histórica (HUL), conforme a definição de UNESCO (2011), compreende uma “abordagem abrangente e integrada para a identificação, avaliação, conservação e gerenciamento de paisagens urbanas históricas dentro de uma estrutura geral de desenvolvimento sustentável”. No entanto, é essencial que qualquer abordagem integrada seja adaptada especificamente às realidades locais, e perceber que cada área urbana tem culturas e identidades diferentes.Na cidade de Santarém, partes do centro histórico estão num estado de deterioração visível, e na Mouraria essas questões são particularmente agudas. Este estudo procura entender e questionar o estado atual, status, significado e valor – relativamente às considerações sociais, ambientais, culturais e económicas – desta zona, dando particular atenção à definição de uma abordagem integrada para a reabilitação. Advirão desta análise uma série de recomendações para apoiar uma estratégia positiva para a área no âmbito de políticas públicas integradas, que procurará atender aos objetivos gerais de desenvolvimento sustentável aos vários níveis.
In several Portuguese historic urban centres, the challenges of population decline and an aging residual resident population have undermined social cohesion and economic vitality. Sustainable development in the historic environment must involve a reorientation of spatial planning policies to integrate older areas into wider urban and regional development frameworks, considering them as part of, rather than separate from, the wider territory. This will also involve a close dialogue between top-down technical planning policy formulation and bottom-up lived experience, so that local people can be more involved from the beginning and throughout the process of policymaking and implementation. But how can this be achieved, through what means can we understand the historic environment, and how can local people contribute to this understanding? The concept of heritage ‘values’ and ‘significance’ are crucial in this process.The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, as defined by UNESCO (2011), comprises a ‘comprehensive and integrated approach for the identification, assessment, conservation and management of historic urban landscapes within an overall sustainable development framework’. But it is essential that any integrated approach is tailored to the realities of local circumstance, realising that each urban area has a different culture and identity. In the city of Santarém, parts of the “centro histórico” have visibly deteriorated, and in the Mouraria these issues are particularly acute. This study seeks to understand and interrogate the current state, status, significance and value - in terms of social, environmental, cultural and economic considerations - of this neighbourhood with particular attention to defining an integrated approach to rehabilitation and refining a transferrable model of evidence-based practice. Recommendations resulting from this evidence-based analysis, should they be implemented, will support a positive strategy for the area within integrated public policy and seeking to meet overall objectives for sustainable development at various levels of management.
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In several Portuguese historic urban centres, the challenges of population decline and an aging residual resident population have undermined social cohesion and economic vitality. Sustainable development in the historic environment must involve a reorientation of spatial planning policies to integrate older areas into wider urban and regional development frameworks, considering them as part of, rather than separate from, the wider territory. This will also involve a close dialogue between top-down technical planning policy formulation and bottom-up lived experience, so that local people can be more involved from the beginning and throughout the process of policymaking and implementation. But how can this be achieved, through what means can we understand the historic environment, and how can local people contribute to this understanding? The concept of heritage ‘values’ and ‘significance’ are crucial in this process.The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, as defined by UNESCO (2011), comprises a ‘comprehensive and integrated approach for the identification, assessment, conservation and management of historic urban landscapes within an overall sustainable development framework’. But it is essential that any integrated approach is tailored to the realities of local circumstance, realising that each urban area has a different culture and identity. In the city of Santarém, parts of the “centro histórico” have visibly deteriorated, and in the Mouraria these issues are particularly acute. This study seeks to understand and interrogate the current state, status, significance and value - in terms of social, environmental, cultural and economic considerations - of this neighbourhood with particular attention to defining an integrated approach to rehabilitation and refining a transferrable model of evidence-based practice. Recommendations resulting from this evidence-based analysis, should they be implemented, will support a positive strategy for the area within integrated public policy and seeking to meet overall objectives for sustainable development at various levels of management.
In several Portuguese historic urban centres, the challenges of population decline and an aging residual resident population have undermined social cohesion and economic vitality. Sustainable development in the historic environment must involve a reorientation of spatial planning policies to integrate older areas into wider urban and regional development frameworks, considering them as part of, rather than separate from, the wider territory. This will also involve a close dialogue between top-down technical planning policy formulation and bottom-up lived experience, so that local people can be more involved from the beginning and throughout the process of policymaking and implementation. But how can this be achieved, through what means can we understand the historic environment, and how can local people contribute to this understanding? The concept of heritage ‘values’ and ‘significance’ are crucial in this process.The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, as defined by UNESCO (2011), comprises a ‘comprehensive and integrated approach for the identification, assessment, conservation and management of historic urban landscapes within an overall sustainable development framework’. But it is essential that any integrated approach is tailored to the realities of local circumstance, realising that each urban area has a different culture and identity. In the city of Santarém, parts of the “centro histórico” have visibly deteriorated, and in the Mouraria these issues are particularly acute. This study seeks to understand and interrogate the current state, status, significance and value - in terms of social, environmental, cultural and economic considerations - of this neighbourhood with particular attention to defining an integrated approach to rehabilitation and refining a transferrable model of evidence-based practice. Recommendations resulting from this evidence-based analysis, should they be implemented, will support a positive strategy for the area within integrated public policy and seeking to meet overall objectives for sustainable development at various levels of management.