Living Historical City Strategy: Sustainable Tourism as Creative Practice

Abstract

As tourism makes everyday life in historical cities difficult, the issue rises around the argument for eventual visions of development to enable the community living and tourism to maintain the position of a key economic factor. Based on the case study of the Adriatic city of Zadar, this paper proposes the identification of four spatial aspects within which an action-based expertise would be needed as to establish a new creative strategy for the development of sustainable tourism. Expertise should activate all stakeholders across the social spectrum, from local university experts to NGOs.