SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

The role of architecture in culture-led urban regeneration strategies. indeed according to the wto-etc research: a the extent of repercussion is always doubtful and often bound to unverifiable factors including the number of international events occurring at the same time making sense of the disappointing results for the cities elected in year ; b although the cities would usually increase their tourist flow by about % in the reference year the effect is of short duration and tends to not outlast the two following years; c good results seem easier to achieve for the small art cities than in the bigger capitals. in the early s the new town plan starts up the third season of the city/tourism relationship granting wide room to the sector notwithstanding the lack of an assessment of the true vocation of rome and its identity to be a city of tourism and specifically mediterranean culture. nonetheless the importance to the distinct characteristics of a locality must not be over-looked as the resulting policies will fall into a process of homogenization. so the really strategic factors are the processes of social interaction that facilitate a collective and interactive learning calafati ie a thickening of information and knowledge cumulative processes.