Mots-clés
spatial planning / 3D / management / theory of town planning / databases / development projects / legal framework / town planning / town and country planning / legal protection / documentation / legislation / inventories / methodology / data processing / digital archives / digital heritage / protection / historic towns
Résumé en anglais
The article1 gives a condensed overview of the situation of integration of heritage issues in spatial planning across Europe and in this context the online accessibility of heritageinformation as one of the spatial data sets. These information and services are used for better and timely management of heritage and application of protection standards when heritage is faced with development needs and interests.
Heritage protection through planning started nearly forty years ago and ever since developed into the most important tool in terms of heritage management. A brief comparative study is presented to illustrate the specificity of integration of heritage andspatial planning in individual European countries (UK - England, France, Germany - Bavaria and Slovenia). Each country has developed unique information tools that mirror the history of inventorisation, protection measures and planning control. Most European countries replaced traditional alphanumeric inventory databases with computerised ones, and in some cases have built complex information systems by combining different data sets, and enabled interoperability with other institutional information systems. Finally as a case of good practice, the prototype of spatial visualization: lines of sight is presented. The tool has been tested in the context of 3D Urbanism of the Municipality of Ljubljana. Lines of sight analysis of a given part of a townscape reveals the visibility of cultural heritage before and after the potential new development and encourages protection of heritage assets through urban planning.