Art And Participation In Urban Cultural Regeneration

The imagines and imaginaries related to places is an important factor to orient visit choices, paths, routes, itinerary and travels. The Italian territory is complex and diversified from both the environmental-landscape and socio-cultural points of views. As regards, the paper is aimed at illustrating the first results of a study centred on sites which are entirely Unesco or contain Unesco properties in development devoted to identify: best practices and relative characteristics capable to supply elements for the definition of guide lines for a quality touristic enhancement; case of non suitable enhancement and relative guide lines to obtain a sustainable touristic enhancement. The guide lines for the sustainable touristic enhancement related to the Unesco sites constitute a work-in-progress to construct with people. Participation is meant in this case both as a tool of knowledge as well as an orientation to choices of people involved with different roles in the use, enhancement or management of those sites.