Abstract
Armenia’s planning system, which is based on Soviet planning traditions, was developed continuously during the last decades in the framework of European and international best practices. As presented in this chapter, despite the changes in legislation, in practice the reality is different because post-independence improvements in the legislative framework and modernization of the planning system did not place communities as a focus of development. The brief analysis of participatory decision making in the Armenian context, highlighting the recent experience of the historic town of Dilijan and the surrounding area, highlights the challenges of the planning system. The core issue is the need to re-evaluate the role of the community in implemented policies and strategies, thus leading to the democratization of public administration, in particular territorial planning and government. The inclusion of the community is essential to harness the potential of the existing cultural strengths and enhance a territorial cultural system approach for spatial-development policies in Armenia.
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Presented numbers are taken from Armenian National Service for Seismic Protection; www.nssp-gov.am.
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All demographic and statistic data were taken from the official Web site of the National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia; www.armstat.am.
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All legal data are taken from the Armenian Legal Information System of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia; www.arlis.am.
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By December 2014, elements in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity presented by Armenia are Duduk and its music (2008); Armenian cross-stones art, symbolism and craftsmanship of Khachkars (2010); Performance of the Armenian epic of “Daredevils of Sassoun” or “David of Sassoun” (2012); and lavash, the preparation, meaning, and appearance of traditional bread as an expression of culture in Armenia (2014).
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Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the guidelines for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 6 February 2008 at the 1017th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies).
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This proposal was presented in the Report of Project on Analysis and Development of the Urban Planning Documentation System performed by urbanlab Yerevan in 2013, Authors: S. Petrosyan, S. Tovmasyan, B. Kocharyan, A. Aktaryan.
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The Yerevan Historic Cultural Concept Plan is not accessible to public, and the considerations are based on the draft version that was presented by its planning team to Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center based in Yerevan, Armenia.
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The number of displaced people varies in different sources. This figure is taken from a blog post “Victims of “State Needs”; Business eats density of Yerevanians” from V. Ishkanyan’s blog dated November 28, 2007, http://vahanishkhanyan.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/petakan.
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This proposal was presented in the Report on Study, Analysis and Development Program for the Legislative Basis of the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, performed by urbanlab Yerevan in 2012, Authors: S. Petrosyan, B. Kocharyan, N. Ashoughatoyan.
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During the last quarter century, there were some other privatization waves that had quite local impacts, for example, the privatization of basements, rooftops, and other social housing utilities. These mostly were concentrated in urban areas where there were sufficient economic activities.
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The information is available through the Official website of the Presidents of the Republic: http://www.president.am/hy/press-release/item/2014/02/14/President-Serzh-Sargsyan-visit-Ministry-of-Urban-Development/.
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Petrosyan, S., Bădescu, G. (2016). Armenian Cultural Territorial Systems First Experience. In: Rotondo, F., Selicato, F., Marin, V., Lopez Galdeano, J. (eds) Cultural Territorial Systems. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20753-7_15
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