Walkspace as Cultural Heritage Within Urban Landscape

Zaninović, Tamara; Palaiologou, Garyfalia; Šćitaroci, Bojana Bojanić Obad

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10612-6_19

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“…Paths, as spatial features organizing the image of the built environment and the relationships between the components of a historical urban area and its context, are central to urban policies of the preservation of cultural heritage [9][10][11]. Lynch [8] identifies paths as a formal category of the urban layout that affects the structure and the identity of the built environment and, thus, the imageability of the city.…”

Section: Literature Review On the Concepts Of Usability Accessibilitmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Multi-Method Tool ‘PAST’ for Evaluating Cultural Routes in Historical Cities: Evidence from Cagliari, Italy

2020

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Thematic paths are a central aspect of urban policies for cultural heritage valorization. In fact, thematic paths are central spatial features for structuring the image of a historical landscape. Hence, this study proposes the cultural paths assessment tool (PAST) as a methodological framework for individuating a network of routes connecting cultural heritage components and for assessing their usefulness. Usefulness is herein defined as the potential of a street network to support the meaningful experience of a historical urban landscape. PAST combines space syntax techniques, a geographic information system, and a qualitative analysis within a multi-criteria analysis framework for addressing four aspects of connecting cultural heritage components, including: (i) the individuation of relevant assets; (ii) the identification of the sub-network of most central street segments; (iii) the definition of the street network of thematic routes; (iv) the assessment of the usefulness of thematic paths, according to the criteria of usability, imageability, and accessibility. The proposed methodology, applied to the historical district of Marina in the city of Cagliari in Italy, supports planning and design processes in two ways: (1) by identifying street segments and squares comprising a network of thematic routes; (2) by individuating high-leverage interventions for improving the usefulness of thematic routes. Consequently, the proposed study addresses the need to establish methodologies and analytic tools that support decision making processes for conserving, managing, and valorizing historic urban landscapes.

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Section: Literature Review On the Concepts Of Usability Accessibilitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lastly, through vision was representative of the number of inter-visibility lines intersecting a node in a visibility graph. Thus, through vision was herein conceptualized as an indicator expressing the centrality of a space within a system [10,12,14,[34][35][36].…”

Section: Usefulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%