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World Heritage Day 2023: The Importance of Urban Design in Preserving World Heritage Sites
The UNESCO World Heritage List includes places of great universal value that are considered to be world heritage sites. The most significant and priceless cultural and natural riches on earth are represented by these locations. The preservation of these locations for upcoming generations is essential because of their significance to
UNESCO World Heritage Cities
The article lists some of the concepts and strategies used for development, redevelopment and conservation proposals.
Urban Heritage of Tenochtitlan, Mexico
Introduction Mexico City has its origins in the foundation of the Ancestral City of Tenochtitlan. Its history relates to the combination of the legends of the polytheistic religion of the indigenous culture. It is said that the Mexicas-in traditional historiography, called Aztecs- left Aztlan (the mythical homeland of Aztec culture,
10 ways to identify Socio-Ecological Heritage in India
Does the word ‘Heritage’ mainly remind you of buildings? Modern neglect for our relationship with nature Usually in the current zeitgeist, people visualize old buildings, preserved by the government, where people visit and admire the artifacts and architecture and learn about history, to be ‘heritage’. But heritage can be
Recalibrating Living Dimensions of Heritage Sites
Originality of Heritage UNESCO and its Heritage Conservation Committees have been working ceaselessly to conserve, safeguard, and list World Heritage Sites, yet more than 95 percent of these sites and buildings remain unexplored. The historic core of society has been a constantly shifting phenomena, adapting to changing societal dynamics. The
Preserving the heritage of the past for the people of today | Gehl
Istanbul is a vibrant, creative city with millennia of human history. The historical peninsula at the heart of the city has a stunning skyline silhouetting the architectural masterpieces perching atop the hilltops, making it one of UNESCO’s world heritage sites of Outstanding Universal Value. But Istanbul is also one of
In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Differential Development, Spatial Cleansing, and Social Exclusion | Mehrauli, Delhi
I intend to study the impacts of the architectural conservation of the Qutub Minar Complex on the urban village of Mehrauli, New Delhi, because the manner in which national- and international-level preservation and planning frameworks operate reveals underlying sociopolitical conflicts and instruments of spatial cleansing. The thesis seeks to develop
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