The Support of the Cultural Heritage Utilization in Historical Town Reserves

Abstract The paper is focused on a cultural heritage. It reports a new perspective on the cultural heritage as a cultural capital, its perception as a bearer of cultural and economic values. The objective was to identify and evaluate, on basis of theoretical foundation of the cultural heritage as a development potential of the territory, which instruments the local governments use to regulate and support the utilization of the immovable cultural heritage in order to develop the territory. We analyzed the use of selected tools by local governments with declared historical town reserves in Slovakia. The overview of actual issues related to the state of the cultural heritage and the proposal of ways of the cultural heritage utilization support is also presented. Provided recommendations can serve as a basis for adopting measures to improve the operation of local governments in the cultural heritage support.