Abstract

To promote the human and sustainable development of our cities implies to recognize that human and social goals have a priority as respects to economic ones and to point out the strategies to adopt for an integrated approach. The good governance is the institutional condition and the critical element necessary to improve urban efficiency, participation and integrated urban planning. In such a context, the evaluations are useful tool to create monitoring device and to deduce from significant examples how to improve town planning/environmental/economic «action plan». Through the ex-post evaluations of some Best Practices of cultural and environmental heritage conservation, it is possible to understand how cultural, environmental, social and economic plus-values have been realized, with a special care for employment results and the activated financial and economic devices.