From Planning to Management of Cultural Heritage Sites: Controversies and Conflicts Between Unesco WHL Management Plans and Local Spatial Planning in South-Eastern Sicily

Francesco Lo Piccolo; Vincenzo Todaro

doi:10.1515/esrp-2015-0004

Authors

Francesco Lo Piccolo Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Architettura, Viale delle Scienze Edificio 14, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Vincenzo Todaro Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Architettura, Viale delle Scienze Edificio 14, 90133 Palermo, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/esrp-2015-0004

Keywords:

UNESCO Management Plan, Sicily, natural and cultural heritage, planning efficacy

Abstract

The paper investigates the relationship between the preservation of cultural heritage and planning in UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) sites, with special reference to the relation between Management Plans and other (local and regional) planning instruments and policies able to influence the promotion of sustainable and responsible development. This will be explored through a case study related to South-Eastern Sicilian UNESCO sites (in particular Syracuse). The analysis of this case study will point out the challenge of integrating different management and planning regimes - which mainly refer to a performative model - in a (still) very conformative planning system. The paper will show how supranational protection tools and models often lose their efficacy in relation to local planning systems.

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