Of the protection to the social legitimation of the urban patrimony in Spain

Abstract

The debate on the historical towns, far from exhausting itself with the epistemological contribution of the Seventies and Eighties of century XX, has faced the beginning of the XXI with the commitment of a conceptual and methodological renovation that make possible one better meeting of the management of these spaces in the set of the city. Which sublies in the debate is a new way of understanding the cultural heritage in the city and the territory. In the meantime, old and new problems daily, and fixed, continue worrying to people in charge, students and citizens related to the oldest spaces of the city. Probably the debate on the historical towns will never finish, but today, and before the crisis of growth that supposes the emergency of the cultural goods as development factor, retaking a return to the historical town as reflection object seems an opportune and necessary action.