How Creative Professionals Reshape the Historic City. The Perspective of Architects as Managers of Coworking Spaces in Villanova District, Cagliari City

Abstract

Professionals and firms of the creative and cultural sector contribute to the creation of business incubators, fablabs and coworking spaces in the historic city, often benefiting from public support. Our paper deals with these creative spaces. It investigates the relationship that architects, as creative professionals and coworking managers, establish with the historic city, the workplace, and the planning and protection rules on buildings. In particular, starting from a research on coworking spaces in the historic District of Villanova, in Cagliari City (Sardinia, IT), this paper critically reflects on the current tools and methods used to map and manage creative spaces in the historic city, making some proposals for their improvement and enforcement in urban regeneration strategies.

Economic Valuation of Cultural Heritage Using the Travel Cost Method: The Historical Centre of the Municipality of Bucharest as a Case Study

“…The renovation of these buildings will contribute to their adaptiv line with the needs of tourists but also of the local population. These measure Cities have the capacity to stimulate the development of projects aimed at redesigning the physical structure through creative reuses of historical buildings and infrastructure elements [53]: the revitalization of the city center and property values and the reuse of heritage resources, adapting them to meet the present needs [5,6,12,54]. These transformations of urban space are the result of global neoliberalization and are planned as alternative measures of urban development [54][55][56][57].…”

“…These transformations of urban space are the result of global neoliberalization and are planned as alternative measures of urban development [54][55][56][57]. Functional conversion projects occur with higher frequency in the historical area of cities in the process of urban regeneration due to the presence of a significant number of unused buildings, which are in different states of conservation [5,53,58], but also as a result of the cultural attraction of the historical area exerted on tourists [53]. Urban historical centers are cultural tourist destinations due to the presence of civil and religious architectural monuments, museums, street structure [5,[59][60][61][62], and "third spaces" (cafés, libraries) [53,60], as well as traditional retail markets [63] or quality of services [64].…”