“Historic Cities inDevelopment: Keys for Understanding and Acting”.

The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) is implementing a programme of the compilation of case studies on conservation and management in historic cities called “Historic Cities in Development: Keys for Understanding and Acting”.

Each Member City has been invited to contribute by presenting one (or several) urban project(s) so as to understand in detail and describe in a hands-on manner the necessary processes and procedures and, by doing so, instigate a new shared understanding and respect with the respect for heritage, and in particular World Heritage, as part of urban development projects.

The project goes beyond the exchange of know-how in conservation – it aims at introducing a more heritage-centered urban development approach.

The aim is to create a dynamic within the OWHC’s network of member cities and, more generally, to thereby contribute to the global debate on urban heritage management and sustainable development.

The results will be presented during the next OWHC World Congress to be held in Sintra (Portugal) in November 2011, with a view to making a contribution to the
40^th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention in 2012 and ensuring a large-scale dissemination the details of which remain to be defined(internet, printed publication, workshop).

The project is headed by the OWHC and implemented by a Steering Committee coordinated by the City of Lyon (member of the OWHC) and the OWHC’s General Secretariat in collaboration with:

• UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, as part of its financial and technical support through the Convention France-UNESCO and the Netherlands’ Funds-in-Trust,
• the Getty Conservation Institute,
• the Council of Europe
• ICOMOS International.

20.03.2011

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