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Culture-Based Practices as Driver of Local Development Processes in Mountain Areas—Evidence from the Alpine Region of the Province of Cuneo (Italy)

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  • Maria Anna Bertolino

    (Centre Régional d’Études des Populations Alpines (CREPA), Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland)

  • Federica Corrado

    (Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Politechnic University of Turin, 10125 Turin, Italy)

Abstract

Over the last few decades, Alpine communities have been affected by many social, cultural, economic and demographic changes that have challenged the hegemonic development models of the 20th century and questioned the city–country cleavage. Nevertheless, the huge potential expressed by culture-based practices in low-density areas—such as the Alps—still represents an unexplored field of research. In order to progress in research in the field, through the analysis of a case study in the Italian Western Alps (Cuneo, Piedmont Region), the article proposes a new methodology of analysis and highlights that new places of cultural production are emerging and that the related culture-based practices can play the role of driver of innovative and sustainable development paths. Based on the results of the case-study analysis, the article presents a taxonomy of new practices in which the binomial culture–territory acts as a driver and explores how these processes can be transferred to similar contexts, in particular, other low-density areas.

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  • Maria Anna Bertolino & Federica Corrado, 2022. "Culture-Based Practices as Driver of Local Development Processes in Mountain Areas—Evidence from the Alpine Region of the Province of Cuneo (Italy)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-19, October.
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