68 Recommendations to local and regional policymakers The social role of urban regeneration through cultural heritage investment Ask your (future) audiences Create or re-invent a new agora Restore, revive, rediscover Restore, revive, rediscover Cultural heritage spots that have been abandoned or neglected can be revived through co-design processes, with the support of local communities, to become people-centred places for cultural and social innovation. Ask your (future) audiences Adaptive reuse of cultural heritage spaces should be based on local community needs and interests. Community involvement is more about high quality engagement than involving a large number of people, but this should not prevent you from constantly looking to engage new communities. Cultural heritage spaces have an intrinsic cultural and historical value and can become urban cultural hearts: places of cultural gathering, collaboration and communication, meeting points of different artistic and cultural languages and of people. Create or re-invent a new agora