A new movement in urban environmental policy, the circular economy (CE), aims to change how Europeans consume and produce materials and energy. Cities are taking up the CE challenge. This research inquires whether the infant CE programs in European cities include cultural heritage and adaptive reuse of cultural heritage (ARCH) buildings. ARCH buildings exemplify the central principal of the CE, which is a temporally long service life with multiple uses for several generations of users. In addition, culture and cultural heritage buildings are established drivers of socioeconomic development, urban landscape, and identity. Hypothetically, cultural heritage and adaptive reuse of cultural heritage (ARCH) buildings should be prominently included in European cities’ CE programs, particularly those cities that are highly ranked on the 2019 European Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor (Monitor). To test this hypothesis, this study creates a novel dataset that profiles the existing circular city plans of 190 European cities included in the Monitor’s ranking. Contrary to the hypothesis, just seven percent of cities in the dataset include cultural heritage. European cities are missing an opportunity to achieve their CE goals and preserve their unique identities as embodied in the built environment.

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欧洲循环城市规划中文化遗产的适应性再利用：系统综述

循环经济（CE）是城市环境政策中的一项新运动，旨在改变欧洲人消费和生产材料与能源的方式。城市正在接受CE挑战。这项研究询问欧洲城市中的婴儿CE计划是否包括文化遗产和对文化遗产（ARCH）建筑的适应性再利用。ARCH建筑物体现了CE的中心原理，这是短暂的使用寿命，对数代用户来说具有多种用途。此外，文化和文化遗产建筑是社会经济发展，城市景观和身份认同的既定驱动力。假设，文化遗产和对文化遗产（ARCH）建筑的适应性再利用应被重点纳入欧洲城市的CE计划，特别是那些在《 2019年欧洲文化和创意城市监测》（监测）中名列前茅的城市。为了检验这一假设，本研究创建了一个新颖的数据集，该数据集对《监测》排名中包括的190个欧洲城市的现有循环城市规划进行了概述。与该假设相反，数据集中只有7％的城市包含文化遗产。欧洲城市正在失去实现其CE目标并保留其在建筑环境中所体现的独特身份的机会。