Territorial heritage: Territory as a cultural and economic resource

Abstract

The consideration of territory as a cultural and economic resource develops on its recent and on-going valuation as part of the historic and cultural heritage. This understanding as «heritage», rests on two main coordinates: the evolution suffered by the very conception of heritage, key element in modern occidental culture, and the progressive theoretical re-elaboration of the concept of «territory». Both collide, in the last few years, in a identification that allows to talk of territorial heritage, qualifying, thus, not only the construed object but the «construction» of space, beyond the building. This perspective, which is the one to justify this meeting, constitutes the starting point of this analysis.