Abstract
The topic of urban regeneration shows a high complexity for the large number of issues and stakeholders involved. Within the city, the social and political dynamics interact and link together with the physical recovery of places. This complexity appears even greater in context that has just started recovery processes. What is the role of cultural heritage in the transformation processes? The existing built is an extraordinary condenser of micro-stories, material culture, traditional construction techniques and therefore identity: recognizing its potential and working for its recovery means to give to the cities more opportunity for their revitalization. Working for a better life quality of the inhabitants and improving their general conditions means strengthening the identity and the sense of belonging. The paper illustrates a path that, through a concrete knowledge exchange experience, tries to develop a methodological process. A learning from practice method was built through a study of local realities that finds in the knowledge exchange with the local authorities and administrators a real opportunity to increase the tools to face the future challenges. The object of investigation is represented from eleven cities in Europe and Central Asia, which are passing through real development phases and, because of their rich diversity, are an interesting subject of discussion and comparison.
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International charter for the conservation and restoration of monuments and sites (the Venice charter 1964), IInd International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments, Venice, 1964, art. 1.
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Fondazione Politecnico, the Department of Architectural Design of Politecnico di Milano and Systematica formed the working group. See the acknowledgments for more details.
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The World Bank, task team leader Stephen Karam, Lead Urban Economist and Guido Licciardi, Urban Specialist.
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TOR (Term of reference) Consultancy service.
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This part of the research was developed by the team group of Systematica (F. Casiroli and R. Choubassi) and from the group coordinated by C. Macchi Cassia.
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Strumica in Macedonia; Samarkand, Bukhara and Nukus in Uzbekistan; Prizren in Kosovo; Berat in Albania; Lviv in Ukraine; Eskisehir and Gaziantep in Turkey; Klintsy and Surazh in Russia.
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The diagnostic tool was developed by the research group coordinated by R. Camagni.
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A. Del Bo, R. Choubassi, P. Macchi Cassia and S. Pistidda took part to the visit and to the report.
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The “development concept” has been elaborated by C. Macchi Cassia, M. Giambruno and R. Camagni with the collaboration of S. Camolese, P. Macchi Cassia, M. Motti, S. Ivaldi and L. Santosuosso.
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The project was led by Fondazione Politecnico (responsible M. Brivio), the Department of Architectural Design of Politecnico di Milano, Systematica, based on assignment by The World Bank. PhD students, teachers, and professional from the Italian group participated to the Urban Design Charrette as following. For Albania: coordinator M. Boriani, with G. Alizzi, A. Bordina, D. Giacosa, P. Macchi Cassia, V. Nicola, F. Premoli. For Uzbekistan: coordinator M. Giambruno, with G. Alizzi, M. Guarisco, R. Mastropirro, S. Pistidda, V. Tolve. For Turkey: coordinator F. Casiroli, with M.V. Cardinale, Z. Faravelli, S. Girani, M. Jadicicco Spignese. For Russia: coordinator C. Macchi Cassia, with E. Bartolini, M. Motti, D. Presicce, L. Santosuosso, F. Zangheri. For Ukraine: coordinator A. Del Bo, with S. Camolese, C. Gandolfi, S. Perego, S. Riboldi, M. Shundovska, C. Torricelli. For Kosovo: coordinator M. Boriani, with G. Alizzi, A. Bordina, D. Giacosa, P. Macchi Cassia, V. Nicola, F. Premoli. For Macedonia: S. Camolese, C. Gandolfi, S. Perego, S. Riboldi, M. Shundovska, C. Torricelli.
A special thanks to the architect Mauro Brivio, responsible for Fondazione Politecnico of the coordination of the entire work.
An affectionate reminder for Cesare Macchi Cassia and Fabio Casiroli, centerpieces of the research group who left us after the end of this job. Thanks Cesare for being, in many other occasions, a reference and a guide for us.
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The article is the result of the joint discussion of all authors; the individual parts have been edited as follows: paragraphs 1 and 2, 2.11 and 3 by Mariacristina Giambruno; paragraphs 2.12, 2.2 and 2.3 by Sonia Pistidda.
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Giambruno, M., Pistidda, S. (2018). Cultural Heritage for Urban Regeneration. Developing Methodology Through a Knowledge Exchange Program. In: Petrillo, A., Bellaviti, P. (eds) Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61988-0_19
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