Narciso e Teseo. Politiche europee, patrimoni culturali, tradizioni e culture territoriali

This work has the primary objective of discussing, in its generality and in its specific implications, the concept of Cultural Heritage compared with the innovations linked to forms of communication and to devalued traditions and today instead rejected in their socio-cultural importance, in view of a broader, broader, more flexible concept, yet closer to the variety of cultural processes innervated in the daily life of a society with advanced technology and communication systems. Furthermore, it is interesting to understand how and to what extent the Cultural Heritage (understood in the redefinition to which the research aims) can become a lever to build sustainable environments, of life and relationships, for communities and territories both urban and, sometimes, marginalized or forced to the mere condition of the periphery. Furthermore, the legislative-regulatory framework is analyzed which today outlines the possibility, for the various European territories, to define their own socio-economic development plan through the full implementation of multilevel governance, which can and must aim at an industry that revolves around the heritage, production and cultural processes of communities, interacting with innovative and sometimes revolutionary systems and forms of communication. [edited by Author]