ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how cultural heritage as part of the urban matter can function as an experiential resource in spatial planning. Place-bound experiential qualities, which can be exploited economically, create a direct link from the experience economy to spatial planning strategies at the city or municipal level as well as at the regional and national levels. In order to facilitate the proper management of cultural heritage in Danish municipalities, the main goal of nationwide cultural heritage municipality programme was to promote and mobilize cultural heritage in urban as well as rural areas as a resource for spatial planning. A specific purpose of the programme was thus to facilitate local political awareness towards basic use-values as well as value-adding experience-oriented qualities of cultural heritage buildings, sites and environments. Graham argues how the cultural heritage of the built environment plays a central role in planning as physical manifestations of the cultural backgrounds and historical developments of our living environments.
