Strategic Planning of Municipal Historic Centers. A Case Study Concerning Sardinia, Italy

The conceptual horizon of this essay is related, on the one hand, to the adjustment process of the implementation plans of the historic centers of the municipalities of the Sardinian region to the Regional Landscape Plan (RLP), and, on the other hand, to strategic planning as an important tool to guide land transformations in order to implement effective local development processes.  We address these issues through a critical analysis of a set of implementation plans of the historic centers (IPHCs) of Sardinian municipalities adjusted to comply with the rules of the RLP, in the frame work of strategic plans (SPs), in order to assess if, and to what extent, IPHCs are consistent with the strategic planning approach.