Which Urban Plan for an Urban Heritage. An Overview of Recent Portuguese Practice on Integrated Conservation

摘要

This paper presents an overview of how integrated conservation of urban scaleheritage is managed in the urban rehabilitation practice in Portugal and its relationwith local urban planning. The central argument is that the safeguard of urbanscale heritage is mainly a question of urban management and urban planning,which necessarily implies a framework that results from conciliation among theculture and the land use administrations. For that purpose, we consider thatspecial attention to a cultural debate concerning the urban heritage concept itselfplays a key role, once it can lead to a focus on urban rehabilitation practice,commonly spread and diffuse in its objectives. We also believe that integratedconservation practice doesn’t belong exclusively to one of the several land useplans of our top-down planning framework and therefore requires a crossmanagementstrategy – top-down and bottom-up – and urban management skills totake advantage of each of those land use plans.