ABSTRACT
… in order to compensate the degradation that threatens an urban landscape, neighbourhoods are classed as safeguarded sectors. But this compensation, already partial from its very origin, can be emptied of its substance because the statutory schemes of safeguarded sectors produce a privileged space of economic valorisation: investors acquire the properties which are then renovated, rented or sold at prices that are, by and large, above the ones from before the classification, the operation ends in the departure of present populations and a profound breakdown of the previous life milieu. In this case, conservation is reduced to a pure façade materiality that serves as a support for, thanks to an injection of capital, new territorial hierarchies and social segregations
