part 1 - Iccrom

MEASURING HERITAGE CONSERVATION PERFORMANCE
6th International Seminar on Urban Conservation
Until 2007 heritage protection and conservation
was realized through proposals created by ordinances
and decrees including:
• Action programs: Revitalization of the
Downtown 8 and the Program of Preservation,
Conservation and Publication of
Rosario’s Industrial Heritage. 9
• Special plans for quarters declared of
urban interest, in order to restore buildings
that are representative of the quarter’s
urban history, preserve urban morphology,
and encourage private investment 10
and the historic, urban and architectural
area of Oroño Boulevard. 11
• Declarations of Historical and Cultural
Interest, such as the urban complex made
up of the Central Argentino Railway
Repair Shops. 12
• Elaboration of the Central Area Inventory
(Figure 3) 13 listing heritage buildings
and sites declared of municipal interest to
create a catalogue. Categories of heritage
buildings, rides and urban sites are established,
as well as their different degrees of
protection.
4. Planning Office’s
Conservation Program
Conservation of built heritage must be considered
as a factor in identity and local development
that plays a positive role in building the urban
landscape. However, urban dynamics themselves
jeopardize built heritage, since building a city on
an existing one implies substitutions that, in many
cases, act against urban memory. The introductory
section of the Urban and Architectural Heritage
Conservation and Rehabilitation Program in the
local government’s website indicates the nature of
the urban heritage conservation policy:
“[…] this Program encourages a city project
where urban interventions, whether private or
public, introduce restoration and enhancement
of urban and architectural heritage as a driving
force to promote public spaces, and recreate
diminished, messy or ‘vague’ areas […] The
project points to restore heritage buildings and
sites, in order to highlight those features that go
unnoticed to the average person, to strengthen
the local identity and to boost the sector’s economy
[development factor].”
Figure 3. Central Area Inventory (Source: Historical, Urban and Architectural Conservation Program; Planning
Office of the Municipality of Rosario).
Rainero, C. 2012. How to register memory? Documentation, recording, archiving and preservation of intangible cultural heritage in
Venezuela. In Zancheti, S. M. & K. Similä, eds. Measuring heritage conservation performance, pp. 59-66. Rome, ICCROM.
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