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T1 Chapter 5 - The creative and prudent management of territorial heritage
A1 Hortelano Mínguez, Luis Alfonso
K1 Geografía
K1 Patrimonio Territorial
K1 Cultura
K1 Patrimonio territorial
K1 Gestión del territorio
K1 Desarrollo territorial
K1 54 Geografía
K1 5403.01 Geografía Cultural
AB Throughout the 20th century, but especially at the turn of the millennium, the social concern for the conservation of the legacy left by our ancestors has been on the increase. This applied to both natural and cultural heritage. This was owing to various reasons of a historic, artistic, architectural, scientific, technical, or traditionalist nature. This awareness of today’s society is related to a movement that aims to preserve the remains of antiquity and to rescue the cultural manifestations that were disappearing. The objective is to find a new identity in the roots that were fast becoming blurred in a world constantly evolving towards globalisation. In addition, such measures as the interpretation of the landscape, the restoration of material elements, or the reinterpretation of immaterial heritage, have all brought about the revaluation of heritage based on the assignation of complementary, alternative or substitutive uses that can generate economic development. In other cases, the same measures have boosted initiatives aimed at providing a public service.There has been a shift in humanity’s attitude to heritage, faced withthe fear of losing our identifying traits, our collective memory and ourbonds with the territory. Society is now facing the future on the basis ofa new paradigm that embraces the diversity of the vestiges of heritagelandmarks in the physical environment and of the cultural fabric asa differentiating aspect and resource for lasting local development inthe face of the contemporary social and cultural demands and needs(Dower, 1998: 8).Thus, the concept of heritage has evolved from a restrictedvision in past centuries to a plural and integral view of the manydimensions involved. The main concern in the past about heritagewas the protection, custody and conservation of the asset for society,because of its intrinsic values from the «historic and artistic» point ofview, as the greatest exponent of a cultural period. This approach hasremained unaltered until recently, when the unidimensional definitionof heritage has been replaced with the inclusion of a wide spectrumof elements and perspectives that have had «cultural» value addedto them. The new definition of «cultural» heritage not only includesthe properties and material objects of artistic, historic, paleontological,archaeological, ethnographic, scientific or technical interest, as well asthe inventories of documents, bibliographic references and linguisticexpressions (languages, dialects and idiom), but also the immaterialheritage made up of the activities, knowledge, practices, works andmanifestations of popular and traditional culture.
PB Thomson Reuters Aranzadi
SN 978-84-9152-760-2
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/36884
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/36884
LA eng
NO Manero Miguel, F.; García Cuesta, J. L. (Coords.) (2017): Territorial Heritage & Spatial Planning. A Geographical Perspective. Ed. Thomson Reuters. The Global Law Collection. Navarra. 327 págs. ISBN – 978-84-9152-762-6
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-abr-2024