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“Living site” as a “cultural quarter”: a discussion of a policy formulation

The paper is a discussion of the applicability of the various concepts used in the culturally-led regeneration programs to a cultured space that recent UNESCO policies designate as a “living site”. The historical complex of the city of Split with the Palace of Diocletian, a rather early inscription on the World Heritage List (1979), was already at the start commended for its quality of preserving the continuity of urban life on the heritage site since late antiquity to the present date. At the same time, the larger city within which the UNESCO-protected complex is located has undergone several waves of urban decay in the socialist and postsocialist periods. The historical core itself is currently exposed to the pressures caused by touristification and real estate speculation, resulting in its losing the qualities that secured it the qualities of a “living site”. The paper discusses the formulation of urban cultural policy that could best help preserve the qualities of the site and synchronize it with the needs of the local population of the wider city in attempts of urban and cultural regeneration. The discussed concepts include that of the “cultural quarter”, “cultural district”, “cultural space”, “cultural neighborhood”, “cultural scene”, and “city of art”. These concepts and their connotations are discussed within a wider discussion of the “creative city”, “planning or educational city” and “cultural scenes” approach outlined by Navarro and Clark as dominant in the cultural agendas of European city mayors. An adaptation of the concept of “cultural quarter” and a mixture of “educational” and “cultural scenes” approaches is highlighted as arguably the most appropriate for the location.

living heritage site; cultural quarter; cultural policy; urban development

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