Inhabited heritage: rehabilitation of courtyards with cooperative processes and ecological and social safeguarding of areas of heritage value
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https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2025.225.20Keywords:
Gentrification, Touristification, Urban regeneration, Social innovation, Heritage community, CourtyardsAbstract
The depopulation trend not only affects spanish emptying rural areas but also its historic centers, in cities that paradoxically continue to expand while their heritage areas suffer gentrification and touristification. Facing this challenge, the “heritage community” is actively involved in urban regeneration to reuse sensibles areas, as a way to be resilient to avoid its homogenization. The rehabilitation of casas de vecinos with cooperative processes emerges as a sustainable residential alternative in Córdoba, as both tangible and intangible heritage, as ecosocial cell of the mediterranean city. The paper examines social economy practices in urban regeneration within the framework of the Faro Convention Network of the Council of Europe, aiming to preserve inhabited heritage through the engagement of the “heritage community,” facing touristification and depopulation. It then focuses on the PAX-Patios de la Axerquía strategy in Córdoba as a heritage laboratory.
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