Operational Keys for Landscape Management from the Heritage Recognition of the Territory

Abstract

The landscape, a sensitive expression of the plurality of our territories, is opposed to a uniform and standardized management of them. In the last decades it has established itself as a strategic vector for the construction of a renewed science of the territory oriented to the maintenance and enhancement of its character and its own values. The objective of this text is to emphasize the central role that heritage plays in this complex paradigm shift and to provide methodological keys for its effective incorporation in landscape management from a project-based approach. In this regard, a possible strategic protocol is proposed for the implementation of heritage in a landscape project based on the concatenated analysis of three international experiences that approach the territory seeking to produce effective interactions between heritage and landscape: the heritage parks, the landscape biography and the regional landscape planning in Italy. The interpretation of the landscape as a narrative strategy and as a relational structure of heritage values is suggested as a pertinent line of work for the practical transfer of heritage in an action on the territory argued from the landscape.