The document summarizes a conference on developing local action plans for historic urban areas. It discusses the challenges of preserving historic areas while facilitating new development. It calls for an integrated approach that coordinates different needs and involves public and private stakeholders. It also calls for management systems to implement continual improvement through a plan-do-check-act process. Finally, it outlines requirements for integrated cultural heritage management plans, such as taking a comprehensive and communicative approach that balances urban life dimensions and coordinates policies through public-private coordination.

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Integrated Approach
Management Plans
Dealing with cultural heritage
landscapes
HerO Lead Expert
Nils Scheffler
scheffler@urbanexpert.net

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Content
1) Challenges for Historic Urban Areas
2) Demands for Action:
Integrated approach and Management system
3) Requirements for
Integrated Cultural Heritage Management Plans

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Challenges for Historic Urban Areas
PRESERVING THE “PAST” – FACILITATING THE “FUTURE”!

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Main Demands for Action
1. Integrated Approach
2. Management Systems

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Characteristics of an Integrated Approach:
Linking, balancing, coordinating different needs
Comprehensive approach – Co-operative and
cross-thematic and cross-technical/sectoral communicative process
Taking into account Activating and involving
• 1. dimensions of urban life
all • 1.
private stakeholders
Intensifying cooperation between Developing common
• 2.
local departments and agencies • 2.
objectives and actions
Coordinating Coordinating public
• 3.
sectoral urban policies and actions • 3. private actions
and

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Main Demands for Action: Management System
to manage the implementation ofImprovement continual improvement
Continual actions and
Plan
Demands Process Satisfaction
of and Act of and
towards Input Activities Do Output towards
historic historic
urban area urban area
Process Process
Input Activities Output Input Activities Output
Check

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Requirements for
Integrated Cultural Heritage Management Plans
Comprehensive, cross-thematic and cross sectoral approach
• Consider, balance and coordinate all dimensions of urban life
• Involve relevant departments
• Coordinate sectoral policies, concepts, plans, actions
Communicative and participative approach
• Activate and integrate relevant private stakeholder
• Integrate private actions
• Coordinate public and private actions
Process approach
• Elaborate necessary processes, activities and its interactions
Management and Control Approach
• Define and describe necessary actions and structures to be
capable to implement the PDCA cycle
Continual Improvement Approach
• Continually updating and adjustment

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Safeguarding
Contribution Cultural Heritage
to
structures vision
safeguarding demands
interests
actions objectives
Management of
demands + interests
objectives actions
interests
vision demands structures Contribution to
sustainable
Attractive development
multifunctional
historic urban areas

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Thank you very much for your
attention.
Questions?
HerO Lead Expert
Nils Scheffler
scheffler@urbanexpert.net