Though the beginning of local autonomy age is important in itself, but the most important thing is to establish the local identity and economical independence by planning the development strategy suitable for individual locals. Therefore, the local hi...
Though the beginning of local autonomy age is important in itself, but the most important thing is to establish the local identity and economical independence by planning the development strategy suitable for individual locals. Therefore, the local historical/cultural resources begin to be highlighted as essential elements to reinforce local competitiveness.
A strategy of new local development should express the local-specific uniqueness and requires more complex concerning about not only economical effects but also social/cultural effects. Thus, each municipalities should sufficiently study its area in advance, and consider the locality to represent it through various historical/cultural resources.
The history-marketing through local records may be an effective alternative of local promotion because its marketing effect is differentiated from that of other cities, in that it is based on local history. This is an strategy to facilitate the locally historical/cultural and social/economical development and simultaneously provide the information of local history by reorganizing multiple features of the area on the basis of local records. As this strategy is based on the facts and faith, is can provide amusement, impression and trust to people. Furthermore, this trust elevates a local positive image and makes it possible to gain creative contents based on local history. In particular, this may be a very desirable strategy in that it has a continuous effect on the development of local identity as well as economical activation of the area in the future.
This thesis introduces Heidelberg, German known as a successful case of history-marketing. Heidelberg build a reputation around the world with the history-marketing, a local promotion strategy, which well activates the urban records-management of German. Behind this successful result, the systematic management of local records containing local history and cultural features has played a big role.
Viewed from the case of Heidelberg, the history-marketing ultimately provides the positive image for the area and contributes to the establishment of a local identity by allowing the residents to feel sense of belonging.
In a word, the successful case of Heidelberg suggests that the systematic management of local records containing the local-specific identity is essential for multiple local development. On the basis of this result, it can be concluded that the establishment of local records-management agency to paly it role should be implemented as soon as possible.