Cultural Development Zones
Donata Anna Garsia · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
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Open access. PDF, 81 pages.
Abstract
Cultural Development Zones: Heritage Community Governance and Culture as a Global Public Good develops a portable governance architecture for protecting heritage communities at the institutional level. The manuscript argues that international heritage frameworks can recognize rights, protect sites, defend policy space, and measure cultural contribution, but they cannot by themselves govern the constitutional terms of the organizations through which heritage communities steward what they have inherited.
The book proposes Cultural Development Zones as a diagnostic and drafting method rather than a uniform legal prescription. Its seven constitutional-choice principles identify the legal functions, governance mechanisms, and accountability structures through which heritage communities can retain authorship across pressure events, institutional capture, market displacement, and mission drift. The Hamilton Policy / New York Model Legislation is presented as one demonstration jurisdiction: an example of how the architecture can be translated into a federalist common-law setting, not the scope of the method itself.
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