Chapter 10 Socio-economic Dimension in Managing the Renewal of Ancient Historic Centers Carmelo M. Torre Abstract The growing need to financially support the processes of the urban regeneration of city centers clashes with the limited availability of public resources. Administrations are therefore forced to prioritize the areas of intervention on one hand by trying to pursue goals of social equity and on the other to take actions to promote an ef ficient financial plan. Consequently, the reference institutional policy of intervention is based on regulatory frameworks that require a closer integration of programming needs of the allocation of resources and social needs. The chapter gives examples of the conciliation among programs the seek for ef ficiency as well as social equality in prioritizing interventions in the urban makeup of historic centers. Keywords Cultural territorial systems Á Urban economy Á Cultural heritage evaluation Accountability, Ef ficacy and Equality in Urban Renewal The community initiative programs that plan for urban development require a serious monitoring of policies through the evaluation of consistency of results. Local governments, in order to increase governance, are called upon to set the decision points on the ability to preview the requested search for coherence using the new program tools. A useful example of the preview method is the definition of appro- priate indicators that describe the condition of social disease and environmental C.M. Torre (&) Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy e-mail: carmelomaria.torre@poliba.it © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 F. Rotondo et al. (eds.), Cultural Territorial Systems, Springer Geography, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20753-7_10 97