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Slow tourist infrastructures to enhance the value of cultural heritage in inner areas
No full textAbstractThe paper investigates whether the value of cultural heritage can be enhanced through what we have termed “slow tourism infrastructure”, connecting individual assets in a regional network. It examines the context of Italian inner areas, where phenomena of marginalisation risk leaving a vast amount of heritage in a state of abandonment. Slowtourism infrastructure, such as long-distance cycle and walking paths, can be considered threads which connect local areas and regenerate heritage dispersed throughout the territory.The main aim of this study is to contribute to the regeneration of the inner areas thanks to the potential of what has been called their “territorial capital” which consists of the natural, cultural and human capital that characterises different regions. Slow tourism infrastructuremakes it possible to experience this capital in an alternative way by connecting the area through which it passes in a linear fashion. The paper analyses the relationship between cultural heritage in inner areas and slow infrastructure routes by examining the VENTO project, a cycle path stretching 679 kilometres from Venice to Turin along the Po River and describes how such a project can potentially reconnect and regenerate cultural heritage spread throughout the Po Valley.Il paper indaga come le infrastrutture turistiche lente (ciclovie o cammini di lunga distanza), possano essere considerate linee di fruizione del patrimonio culturale, naturale e umano dei luoghi che attraversano. Queste infatti lungo il loro percorso possono ricucire i singoli beni, oggi isolati e slegati tra loro, inserendoli in un nuovo racconto unitario e di sistema. Il potenziale rigenerativo di tali infrastrutture è ancora più rilevante se si considera il contesto delle aree interne italiane, dove gravi processi di marginalizzazione mettono a rischio anche il patrimonio territoriale: come le aree interne si spopolano, così anche i loro patrimoni vengono abbandonati e dimenticati. Le infrastrutture turistiche lente possono diventare una strategia di sviluppo per le aree interne del Paese e del loro patrimonio poiché permettono di scoprire e vivere il capitale territoriale, ovvero le risorse naturali, culturali e umane, peculiari di ciascun luogo. L’inedita relazione tra patrimonio culturale, aree interne e infrastrutture turistiche lente viene analizzata attraverso un caso studio, la dorsale cicloturistica VENTO. VENTO è il progetto di una ciclovia di 679 km1, da Venezia a Torino, lungo il fiume Po. Verrà approfondito come il patrimonio territoriale della valle del Po può essere ricucito e rigenerato grazie al filo ciclabile di VENTO
Patrimonio architettonico e turismo lento: politiche di riuso lungo un cammino storico / Architectural Heritage and Slow Tourism: Re-Use Policies Along a Historical Route
No full textThe article proposes a reflection on slow tourism as a lever for the regeneration and conservation of the architectural and cultural heritage to reuse what already exists in the territory. The article develops this proposal through the analysis of one of the main European examples of slow tourism: the Way of St. James in Spain. The case represents a unique experience in which tourism development, which started in the early 1990s, was accompanied by a regeneration of the architectural and cultural heritage along the route. The strategies, tools and outcomes of the intense process of recovery of the disused heritage along the Way are thus shown. From the analysis it is possible to identify a series of guidelines for processes of regeneration and conservation of the heritage along lines of slow tourism, useful also for actions recently promoted in the Italian context.L’articolo propone una riflessione sul turismo lento come leva per la rigenerazione e la conservazione del patrimonio architettonico e culturale in un’ottica di riuso sapiente di quanto è già esistente nel territorio. L’articolo sviluppa questa proposta attraverso l’analisi di uno dei principali esempi di turismo lento europei: il Cammino di Santiago in Spagna. Il caso rappresenta un’esperienza unica in cui lo sviluppo turistico, partito dai primi anni Novanta in poi, è stato accompagnato da una rigenerazione del patrimonio architettonico e culturale lungo il Cammino. Si mostrano quindi le strategie, gli strumenti e gli esiti dell’intenso processo di recupero del patrimonio dismesso lungo il Cammino. L’analisi permette di individuare una serie di indirizzi progettuali grazie ai quali immaginare processi di rigenerazione e conservazione del patrimonio lungo linee di turismo lento da integrare in politiche e azioni recentemente promosse anche nel contesto italiano.
The article proposes a reflection on slow tourism as a lever for the regeneration and conservation of the architectural and cultural heritage to reuse what already exists in the territory. The article develops this proposal through the analysis of one of the main European examples of slow tourism: the Way of St. James in Spain. The case represents a unique experience in which tourism development, which started in the early 1990s, was accompanied by a regeneration of the architectural and cultural heritage along the route. The strategies, tools and outcomes of the intense process of recovery of the disused heritage along the Way are thus shown. From the analysis it is possible to identify a series of guidelines for processes of regeneration and conservation of the heritage along lines of slow tourism, useful also for actions recently promoted in the Italian context
Turismo lento, financiamento público e desenvolvemento económico. Revisión crítica do caso do Camiño de Santiago en Galicia
Full text linkThe analysis of the economic dimension relating to the Way of St. James is confronted in a double reflection. On the one hand, the intention is to reconstruct the public funds that have supported the project to relaunch the Way over the years. On the other hand, we discuss one of the impacts of the route on the territory - that relating to economic development following the “second coming” of tourism. The analysis of both aspects shows rather unexpected results. In the first case it is shown how slow tourism projects can be real priority axes on which to concentrate large public funds. The second calls into question the effective ability of a path, albeit with significant tourist flows, to activate demographic recovery and to improve economic conditions. However, the need is discussed to investigate the question in greater detail which, if analyzed in the various parts, really shows the importance, not only economic, that the process of development of the Way has entailed for the territory it passes through.El análisis de la dimensión económica del Camino de Santiago se afronta en una doble reflexión. Por una parte, la intención es reconstruir los fondos públicos que apoyaron el proyecto de relanzamiento del Camino a lo largo de los años. Por otro lado, se comenta uno de los impactos de la ruta en el territorio, el relativo al desarrollo económico tras lo redescubrimento turístico. El análisis de ambos aspectos proporciona resultados bastante inesperados. En el primero caso, se muestra como los proyectos de turismo lento pueden ser verdaderos ejes prioritarios en los que concentrar grandes fondos públicos. El segundo cuestiona la capacidad efectiva de un camino, aunque con importantes flujos turísticos, para activar una recuperación demográfica y una mejora de las condiciones económicas. Con todo, se discute la necesidad de indagar con mayor atención a cuestión que, analizada en las distintas partes, muestra realmente la importancia, no solo económica, que el proceso de desarrollo del Camino supuso para el territorio que atraviesa.A análise da dimensión económica do Camiño de Santiago afróntase nunha dobre reflexión. Por unha banda, a intención é reconstruír os fondos públicos que apoiaron o proxecto de relanzamento do Camiño ao longo dos anos. Doutra banda, coméntase un dos impactos do roteiro no territorio, o relativo ao desenvolvemento económico tras o redescubrimento turístico. A análise de ambos os aspectos proporciona resultados bastante inesperados. No primeiro caso, móstrase como os proxectos de turismo lento poden ser verdadeiros eixes prioritarios nos que concentrar grandes fondos públicos. O segundocuestiona a capacidade efectiva dun camiño, aínda que con importantes fluxos turísticos, para activar unha recuperación demográfica e unha mellora das condicións económicas. Con todo, discútese a necesidade de indagar con maior atención a cuestión que, analizada nas distintas partes, mostra realmente a importancia, non só económica, que o proceso de desenvolvemento do Camiño supuxo para o territorio que atravesa. 
Cambiare prospettiva sulla crisi abitativa: oltre i confini urbani del fabbisogno
No full textLa crisi abitativa in atto nei principali poli urbani viene spesso descritta come scarto tra numero di abitanti
(in competizione con turisti e city users più o meno temporanei) e disponibilità di alloggi, ovvero come una
questione di fabbisogno abitativo. L’articolo riflette su questo tema proponendone una rilettura critica;
allargando la scala di analisi oltre i confini urbani entro cui esso si manifesta, suggerisce di concettualizzare
la questione abitativa anche come problema relazionale tra territori. Due prospettive introducono altrettanti
punti di vista con cui osservare la crisi abitativa urbana alla luce di squilibri territoriali extraurbani,
nell’intento di offrire un utile punto di partenza per ripensare la scala e gli strumenti delle politiche
pubbliche.The housing crisis in the most attractive urban poles is often described as a growing mismatch between the
number of inhabitants (competing with tourists and other more or less temporary city users) and housing
availability, namely as an issue of housing shortage. The article critically investigates this phenomenon; by
broadening the scale of analysis beyond the urban boundaries where it happens, it suggests to conceptualise
the housing issue also as a relational problem between territories. Two perspectives are discussed to suggest
points of view to observe the urban housing crisis in the light of extra-urban territorial imbalances. The aim
is to offer a useful starting point to rethink the scale and the instruments of public policies
Redesigning “schools squares” for a public city
No full textThe conquest of new public spaces is one of the main options in processes of urban regeneration. It seems essential in contemporary cities, since our life occurs more and more indoors and in private contexts, reducing the role of public and outdoor activities. Among cultural-based urban regeneration projects that operate within those spaces waiting for an improvement of the existing public functions, schools can play a particularly prominent role, as well spread and symbolic institutions with an educational mission for young people. From this perspective, the paper discusses how school squares, namely the urban areas close to the entrance of schools, can be designed and regenerated to produce a real public space where the city meets the school and vice versa. The paper presents a methodology to classify different typologies of school squares, based on an extensive analysis on over 600 school squares, located in the provinces of Milan, Turin and Varese. On the basis of such classification, some guidelines are discussed in order to propose a strategy to redesign these symbolic spaces and to conquer them as public areas
Regenerating small and medium sized stations in Italian inland areas by the opportunity of the cycle tourism, as territorial infrastructure
Full text linkThis study aims at demonstrating how cycle tourism could activate a regeneration of small and medium sized stations
in inland areas, able to involve also territorial and urban areas hosting these stations. Starting point of this research is
the issue of the small and medium sized Italian stations, mostly unused even if they are still active as rail service. Since
control of trains’ traffic is organized only in bigger railway yards, small stations are gradually becoming empty containers:
ghost stations, without any railway personnel. Thanks to the potentiality of the cycle tourism, riding slow through
landscapes, it becomes possible to valorize and safeguard this heritage, not only exploiting its potentiality as shiftnode
between train and bike, but also imaging a systemic strategy triggering urban, territorial and social reactivation.
Main challenge was to experiment how another model of mobility, the cycle tourism, able to promote a territorial
project preferring to pass slowly through the inland areas, avoided by the fast infrastructural lines, could contribute in
such regeneration process. In order to validate this intuition, it was carried out a project of four stations in proximity
of the cycle tourist path VENTO, along the Po River. These stations were transformed in “green mobility hubs”, where
shifting from train to bicycle and vice versa. This becomes the occasion to imagining new functions hosted in empty
spaces of stations (both internal and external): they will provide cycle tourists with territorial info and specific services,
such as repair areas and bikes and baggage safekeeping and both tourists and local inhabitants with social activities
in order to bring them to live again station’s area. These functions want to generate an expectation, both in tourists
and local people, to rediscover the territory around: in this way stations reassume their role of urban and territorial
gates
Optimal Charging Station Location in a Linear Cycle Path with Deviations
Full text linkBicycle tourism is on the rise thanks to assisted-pedaling bikes, also known as e-bikes. While pedaling is still required on these bikes, they allow for longer rides through a battery-powered motor that has an autonomy of a few tens of kilometers. Batteries can then be recharged in one to two hours at recharging stations. Due to the waiting time, these stations should be installed at points of interest such as town centers or monuments for the cyclist to explore during recharge.
We consider the problem of installing charging stations (CSs) on a road or trail network in order to minimize the maximum distance between two CSs, subject to a budget constraint. Optimal placing of CSs for bike trail networks constitutes a known class of location problems; we focus on a special case where the graph representing the trail/road network is a caterpillar graph whose spine is a cycle path while the leaves are points of interest, connected to the trail via side roads. For this case, we show that the optimization problem can be solved to optimality by a binary search algorithm where a shortest path problem is solved at each iteration. We apply our approach to find the CS locations on a 210 km-long section of the VENTO bike trail in northern Italy
LINEAR PLANNING TO REDUCE REGIONAL INEQUALITY. A THEORETICAL REVIEW AND THE CASE OF THE WAY OF ST. JAMES
No full textThis book explores the advantages of a linear model of planning in reducing regional inequalities. Linear planning, commonly discussed in the past as a method which plans the development of the city, is completely redefined here in the form of a design approach inspired by projects shaped by linear routes, such as cycle or walking paths. Such concept is applied to the urgent topic of territorial marginality which specifically neglects rural and mountainous areas and recently is coped by European and National policies. The analysis of these policies demonstrates the necessity of alternative strategies equipped to deal with both the internal and external causes that determine the critical conditions in these fragile environments. By implementing the concept of linear planning in these contexts, this book proposes to enlarge the perspective of traditional policies contrasting the regional inequalities that usually determine the design of projects just within the boundaries of the marginal areas. Cycle and walking paths are experimental cases of linear planning as they have not been influenced or formed by political boundaries and therefore are able to equally involve both the central and marginal zones. This book presents a review of current issues such as regional inequalities, with attention to their related policies, as well as an analysis of the concept of linear planning as seen through the study of one of the most famous cases of a walking path—the Way of St. James in Spain
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