Economic enhancement of cultural and artistic heritage: focus on Community programmes

Many scholars have drawn attention to the current relevance of various aspects of the economics of culture on the one hand and city economics on the other in economic literature. Some authors have even suggested an interaction of these two disciplines to analyse possible models of sustainable development for art cities. In this paper, we will try to corroborate this trend by showing how particular attention has been paid to these questions at a European level. We will try to provide a framework – by force of circumstance only partial – of European Community policies concerning the “city-cultural heritage” relationship.