A Cultural Heritage, Preservation Master Plan: Postoccupancy of Emporion to Evaluate Theme Park versus Environmental Design

Abstract

In spite of market pragmatics, the urban, architectural and environmental protection and conservation ideas of the Emporion master plan were quickly implemented in actual planning. (1) Previous research conducted at Technical University of Catalonia set the design requirements for policy-making required in any sort of master plan. One of the goals was to predict a successful use of space through a natural and historic lanscapes. Social and cultural factors determined one set of parameters for environmental programming and evaluation; namely, how people use both recreational and tourist infrastructure through historic places. University research was sponsored at that time by the Getty Grant Program. University research today develops further through a longitudinal study which started once the plan was executed and partly built in 1992. Data gathering is currently being sponsored with funds of the government of Spain: Proyecto I+D: Arquitectura, educación y evaluació ambiental.