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Prescia R
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. Strategie e iniziative per il recupero e la valorizzazione: un bilancio sui centri storici siciliani
2020
The present contribution focuses on the strategies carried out to hinder depopulation and facilitate the recovery of the historical city centres in Sicily in the last fifty years. In particular, the essay analyses if the strategies and initiatives fostered in this field had been respectful of the physical characteristics of these small towns. Furthermore, the present study intends to assess if the improvement of the “quality of life” has been considered among the strategies carried out to contrast depopulation. The scarce efficacy of policies and strategies over the last fifty years, which emerges from this analysis, is partially due to the endemic inability of politicians and local communi…
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2017
The crisis in values and the political-economic problems that plague modern-day society affect, among other things, the topic of architectural heritage protection and enhancement. Given its role as a historic trace of thousand-year-old civilisations, cultural heritage has often been liable to exploitation for religious, political as well as cultural purposes. For this reason, traditional conservation instruments are inadequate if we want to tackle modern-day circumstances, and those who work in the field of conservation should now play an important role not only in the concrete protection of this heritage (through conservation, maintenance, reuse and so on), but also in finding new cultural…