Peer Review: An useful learning tool during the implementation of activities in the INT-HERIT cities.

Peer Review is a helpful and frequently used methodology in the URBACT Programme as well as within the frame of the INT-HERIT Project. During the transnational meetings, peer reviews are organised to review the site visits. After the meeting, outputs…

Cities’ Challenges in Cultural Heritage Management

A Historic Urban Landscape or HUL is an urban area understood  as  the  result  of  a  historic  layering  of  cultural  and  natural  values  and  attributes,  extending  beyond  the  notion  of  “historic  centre”  or  “ensemble”  to  include  the  broader  urban   context …

An innovative approach to cultural heritage management

When thinking of economic development in small-medium size cities, cultural heritage always plays an important role in any city strategy, particularly in the historical towns where the valorisation of cultural heritage remains one of the best tools to promote social…

2. Urban rehabilitation area of the coastline of the city of Espinho

Summary The “Urban rehabilitation Plan of Espinho’s Coastal Area (ARULE) focuses on the oldest and most central part of the city, chosen by the Municipality to initiate a process of urban rehabilitation, in its multiple aspects: physical, economic and social.…

2. A participatory approach for Cultural Heritage management

Summary: A major administrative reform in Greece named «Kallikratis Programme» brought a major reform of the country’s administrative divisions. The Kallikratis Programme further reduced the number of self-governing local administrative units by compulsory merging the 1033 municipalities and communities which…

2. THE REHABILITATION AND REVITALIZATION OF THE PRINCELY PALACE (THE E BODY) – ALBA IULIA MUNICIPALITY

FROM signing the financial contract with the Managing Authority, TO finalisation of the public acquisition procedure for the selection of the constructor. Case example Summary The construction of the Princely Palace, which started in the middle of the XIVth century,…