Abstract
This article focuses on two strategies that when coordinated, can assist in the rehabilitation and the reintegration of a public heritage at risk of extinction; its formation, dismantling, and recovery processes. It addresses the interaction of social, political, and economic variables, involved in the recovery process of a cultural legacy, and its return to the community as a public asset. It also analyzes the government's actions as the intervening statutory agent for its maintenance, preservation, and conservation. In addition to ways of employing both the significance, and the importance of this recovered heritage as a material symbol for the improvement of the population's self-esteem and quality of life.
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