SERIE RESEARCH ITlEmORnnDB QUANTITY AND QUALITY EVALUATION INDICATORS FOR OUR CULTURAL-ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

In this paper the problem of evaluating our cultural-architectural heritage is treated. The aim is to design a method for incorporating multiple (tangible and intangible) dimensions of cultural-architectural assets. In the first part a critical discussion of various cornerstones of evaluating such assets is given, whilst a plea is made for the use of a 'compound' evaluation method. Next, an overview of various evaluation methods for our cultural heritage is given, ranging from monetary to scoring and decision support methods. In the final part of the paper a new method, the so-called generalized regime method, is introduced. It provides a two-stage evaluation procedure for socio-cultural assets, based on the idea of a 'compound' evaluation. This method is able to take into consideration both cardinal and ordinal information. It is illustrated by nteans of a numerical example.