L’abbandono del patrimonio ferroviario: strategie per la fruizione attiva e la manutenzione. The Abandonment of Railway Heritage: Strategies for Active Use and Maintenance.

The disused railway heritage represents the identity and the collective memory, whose valorisation requires the search for a new balance between the opportunity to increase its environmental, cultural and social values, through an active fruition, and the innovation of the management systems, through a civic maintenance of the common good. It is a communal heritage and represents a resource for the cultural and social development of the territory of which it is an integral part. In the national context, in fact, the idea that the recovery of this heritage is a resource for the widespread exploitation, able to activate strategies of local development, is now consolidated. The recovery of the abandoned railway heritage represents a relevant physical-spatial resource that must necessarily be considered in the context of projects for requalification and transformation of urban contexts. According to a conservative approach of the available resources characterized not using further soil, but by the recovery and re-functionalization of the existing built environment. The widespread presence of railway property and disused tracks throughout the Country is an opportunity of valorisation. The reuse of building for purposes identified by local socio-economic sectors allows to provide territories with an extensive network of services, designed through bottom-up decision-making processes, calibrated on local needs.