Cultural Territorial Systems: Landscape and Cultural Heritage as a Key to Sustainable and Local Deve

Introduction and background.- Introduction.- The concept of heritage.- Local self-sustainable development.- The cultural heritage as a key to the development of cultural and territorial integrated plans for the exploitation of networks of minor historical centres and their landscape systems.- Lesson learned from practices on safeguarding Cultural Heritage: minor historic centres revitalisation.- Characterisation of minor historic centres.- Main Lessons learned from practices on revitalising Cultural Heritage linked to minor historic centres.- Territorial Cultural Systems: a different Approach to Cultural Heritage.- Territorial Cultural Systems: A first definition.- The main elements of strategic development processes.- The main features and benefits of the Territorial Cultural Systems.- A new Approach to the Management of Cultural Territorial Systems: Integrated Cultural Territorial Plans.- Participation and Integrated Cultural Territorial Plans.- Developing a vision, objectives and actions.- Developing a territorial project.- A landscape design process.- Developing structures and procedures.- Implementing and Reviewing Integrated Cultural Territorial Plans.- First experiences in Eastern Europe.- Planning instruments and heritage protection: Legal and institutional context.- Identification and involvement of local stakeholders in East European countries.- From mapping to acting - visual instruments and visible results for encouraging territorial cultural systems.- Final Discussion and Conclusions.- Lessons learnt.- Political perspectives and planning policies.- Dealing with Territorial Cultural System: the way ahead.- Conclusions.