The Value of Urban Cultural Heritage: An Intelligent Environment Approach

Abstract

The paper presents the conceptual background at the basis of the development of new intelligent environments for the access, exploitation, and management of Cultural Heritage, and of the e-services that will unlock and promote the value of European and global Cultural heritage. We discuss the challenges related to the creation of user-friendly interfaces conveying and promoting the understanding of distributed, diverse, multi-media public information on cultural destinations and sites and the available services to enhance the public awareness of European Cultural Heritage while widening the concept of accessibility. New agent based technologies and case based reasoning might help and support policy makers who face decisions related to non market commodities such as cultural heritage goods’ and regeneration plans. Within this context, we consider the implications to economic valuation methods’ applications and enhancement. © 2006, JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL. All rights reserved.