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This paper intends to enhance the tourist offer in a dynamic meaning in which, referring to the paradigm of resilience and smartness, aims at the so-called multicultural tourism, suggesting for Sardinia the proposal for an integrated offer of typologically different goods. This offer is also adaptable to different needs without losing sight of all the territorial determinants that contribute to enhancing the central effects which, in a nutshell, are closely correlated with the prevailing cultural good. The proposals will take into consideration two factors: the first is the evolution of the demand for interest of users in a framework of components not only of cultural heritage but also of other factors that contribute to the characterization and identity of the context. The second will consider the possibility that the integrated offer of cultural goods proposed may vary in real time due to an evolution in the demand of the users and due to the different evolutions of the territory of a natural or artificial type. This objective will be achieved considering first of all the most used cultural assets, and then systematically aggregate different tourist offers, aimed at enhancing the two main economic natures of Sardinia, that of cultural heritage and the pastoral agricultural one, which, at present, do not appear almost never present in integrated actions within common programming activities.

We construct a method to evaluate the neighbourhood park vitality potential (NPV-potential), inspired by Jane Jacobs&rsquo, s theory of urban and park vitality. The evaluation model produces an aggregate score of NPV-potential by combining information on the extrinsic factors of vitality, related to the park&rsquo, s surrounding urban area, with evaluative judgements on the intrinsic factors, related to the park&rsquo, s internal organization and design. To showcase and submit the evaluation model to a preliminary test drive, we further present the results of an application on three parks in the city of Cagliari, Italy. The computed NPV-potential and the effective use of the three parks, obtained from direct observation, show a good degree of agreement. While far from a robust validation, which would require more extensive empirical studies with larger and more internally variable samples of parks, the reported agreement between the potential and the observed vitality on the ground is a preliminary indication of the possible usefulness of the proposed evaluation method for urban planning and design.