Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse as contribution to Creative and Circular Cities

Circular Economy and Cultural heritage (and landscapes) adaptive reuse have similar objectives: to enlarge the time horizon of resources, ideally in an indefinite time (enlarging the perspective of «here and now» and introducing a longer time horizon in choices) to enlarge the set of values / objectives including also ecological and social ones in choices However, cultural heritage and landscape are absent from the physical-spatial context of emerging circular city/city-region models. The Circular Economy aims to reduce the growing entropy generated by our current production-consumption economic models. The Circular Economy promotes - and it is founded on - a culture of cooperation, that reduces social entropy, improving resilience. In this perspective, the Circular Economy can help the effectiveness of economic processes, but also to stand against the growing forces of fragmentation and atomization of the European society, stimulating more social cohesion.