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Existing elements essential for the development of the general area of touristic interest, in the Priority Intervention Zone. (Source: Masterplan-Strategic Plan for the Urban and Social Revitalization of Porto's Central Area, 2005)
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In recent years, the urban competitiveness model has boosted the insight of historic centres as a value-added asset, where the symbolic features related to culture and heritage could be exploited accordingly to the global market aims. This historic centres' perception epitomizes the general European policy course to knowledge and innovation, where...
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... of public space as the element that links leisure, commercial and touristic areas, allowing users and consumers to move from place to place. Such functional attributes intertwine with the symbolic uses of culture by the means of tourism and consumption -by example, with the proposals of networks for leisure tours, for themed markets and fairs, but also in the intention of creating new touristic and commercial axis (2, 3 and 8). ...
