ABSTRACT
The increasing attention to the urban scale of conservation requires new approaches towards the built heritage. There are many studies and standard procedures about historic buildings and their conservation projects and processes, but there is not yet enough experience (skills, theoretical sharings, practice) related to the enlargement of the scale in the conservation field. The consequence is a deep gap between the conservation of the most significant buildings and the practice on basic buildings and urban fabrics. The purpose of this contribution is to suggest some points and try to outline a work methodology, starting from an ongoing research on Calcata, in Northern Lazio, and other Italian small historic settlements; this research is based on some tools already used in current practice, such as the survey, the morphological analyses and the building archaeology, and tries to extend them to the urban scale.
