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Urban NotebooksNewsletter of the World Heritage Cities Programme

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The 44th session of the World Heritage Committee (44 COM)was organised online and in Fuzhou, China from 16-31 July2021. The Committee examined 255 State of Conservationreports of World Heritage properties, 72 of them, nearly a thirdof the total, concerning urban heritage properties that are part ofthe World Heritage Cities Programme. A number of issuesemerged as significant for protecting the Outstanding UniversalValue (OUV) of urban heritage.

The World Heritage Committee noted significant pressures onhistoric urban areas from:

• Inappropriate or inconsistent development controls;• Rapid and unplanned development, including largedevelopment projects and additions that are incompatible intheir volume and grain;• mass tourism;• the accumulated impact of incremental changes that havecontinued in and around numerous World Heritage propertiesthat are or could potentially be damaging to the OUV of theproperties, including to their integrity and authenticity.

Report on the World Heritage Committeeand recent events in heritage worldwide

Newly-inscribed urban heritage, State ofConservation & more from the Committee

City Focus

New case studies available on the WorldHeritage Canopy Platform

Expert Reflections

Dr. Papa Sy from the IsDB on post-Covidupgrading in urban areas linking healthand heritage

Upcoming events,publications, news from our partners

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Kurpark, Römerstraße, Spa quarter and Bäderlei - Bad Ems, in the newly inscribed World Heritage site TheGreat Spa Towns of Europe; Dominik Ketz © Stadt- und Tourismusmarketing, Verbandsgemeinde Bad Ems

Editorial: Reflections on urbanheritage at the 44th WorldHeritage Committee

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Another significant challenge in managing urbandevelopment pressures on heritage was related toconservation management plans that are weak,inadequate, in need of updating or still underpreparation.

A majority of State of Conservation issues wererelated to new construction, including newinfrastructure, and need for urban regulations tomanage new construction.

Other conservation challenges included governanceand decision-making mechanisms for urban heritageconservation and their management systems. Suchurban development pressures were higher in Europeand North America as well as the Asia and Pacificregions. A number of World Heritage cities alsopresented issues related to buffer zones andboundaries, such as the need for better boundarydefinitions and minor boundary modifications.

Previous World Heritage Committee decisions alreadyconsistently emphasised the need to better addressurban pressures from development within WorldHeritage properties and their buffer zones and widersettings. At its 43rd session, the Committee emphasised the urgent need to integrate urbanheritage management directly into planning anddevelopment policies for properties in and aroundurban areas and to anchor urban heritagemanagement into the wider social, economic andcultural context (Decision 43 COM 7.3).

The analysis of the Second Consolidated Report(2019) on the implementation of the 2011Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape(HUL Recommendation), presented to the UNESCOGeneral Conference in November 2019, showed thatmuch remains to be done to resolve the conflictingdemands of heritage conservation and urbandevelopment in order to make cities more sustainable,inclusive and resilient.

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Hence, it is essential to integrate management systemsfor World Heritage properties into the planning anddevelopment plans and processes at the city level, sothat the protection of the OUV becomes a key aim of citydevelopment projects. The importance of such coherenceand coordination between different national, regional andlocal agencies and authorities has become evident in anumber of World Heritage properties in recent years.

The 44th session also saw the World HeritageCommittee make the exceptional, rare decision to deletethe property, "Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City" fromthe World Heritage List, noting that inadequategovernance processes, mechanisms, and regulations fornew developments in and around the World Heritageproperty had resulted in serious deterioration andirreversible loss of attributes conveying its OUV and asignificant loss to its authenticity and integrity. Theproperty had been inscribed on the World Heritage List in2004 and on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2012after concerns about the proposed development ofLiverpool Waters and other projects within the site and itsbuffer zone.

The World Heritage Committee called on States Partiesto implement the HUL Recommendation in and aroundurban World Heritage properties, building on theopportunity of the 10th Anniversary of the HULRecommendation in 2021 to support key actions toimplement the HUL Recommendation also in line with the2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda.

The Committee also stressed the importance of carryingout Heritage Impact Assessments to evaluate andmanage potential negative impacts to the OUV of theproperty from new development projects. And finally, theCommittee reiterated the importance of engaging withlocal communities and enhancing the liveability of theproperties for those local communities.

Jyoti Hosagrahar Deputy Director, UNESCO World Heritage Centre

44th World Heritage Committee

The extended 44th Session of the World Heritage Committee was organisedonline and in Fuzhou, China in July 2021.

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34 newly-inscribed World Heritage sites

"Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape ofArts and Sciences", Madrid (Spain);

"As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and UrbanHospitality", As-Salt (Jordan);

"Nice, a Winter Resort Town of the Riviera", Nice(France);

"The Porticoes of Bologna", Bologna (Italy).

"The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – HumanCentred Urban Design", Ljubljana (Slovenia);

"Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt", Darmstadt (Germany) We congratulate these cities and welcome to join theactivities of the World Heritage Cities Programme, enrichour community and share their practices. With this year's 34 new inscriptions, the total number ofsites on UNESCO's World Heritage List reaches 1154,and the World Heritage Cities Programme nowencompasses 318 properties.

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·"Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-YuanChina", in Quanzhou (China);

"The Great Spa Towns of Europe", a transnationalproperty comprising 11 towns, located in sevenEuropean countries: Baden bei Wien (Austria); Spa(Belgium); Františkovy Lázně (Czechia); Karlovy Vary(Czechia); Mariánské Lázně (Czechia); Vichy(France); Bad Ems (Germany); Baden-Baden(Germany); Bad Kissingen (Germany); MontecatiniTerme (Italy); and City of Bath (United Kingdom);

The Committee examined 45 new proposals, includingnominations submitted in 2020 and 2021, beforeultimately inscribing a total of 34 properties onUNESCO's World Heritage List. Of the new inscriptions, 29 are cultural properties and 5are natural properties. Additionally, 3 other propertiessaw their boundaries significantly extended. Many of these newly inscribed properties are located inurban contexts, directly linking them to activitiesdeveloped by the World Heritage Cities Programme.They include:

Panorama of Luoyang Bridge. Zheng Wengui, © Quanzhou Maritime Silk Road World Heritage Nomination Center.

Royal Botanical Gardens, part of the "Paseo delPrado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and

Sciences", Madrid (Spain) © MonumentaMadrid.

Nice, a Winter Resort Town of the Riviera(France); © Ville de Nice

·"As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and UrbanHospitality" As-Salt (Jordan).

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The Porticoes of Bologna (Italy). Silvia Summa © LINKS Foundation

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State of Conservation ofWorld Heritage properties

The Secretariat also fully recognized theachievements and progress made by "SalongaNational Park" in the Democratic Republic of theCongo in eliminating threats of war and illegalpoaching, and unanimously agreed to remove it fromthe List of World Heritage in Danger. Read more

The session also saw the Committee make theexceptional, rare decision to delete "Liverpool –Maritime Mercantile City" from the World Heritage Listdue to "the irreversible loss of attributes conveying theoutstanding universal value of the property." Thedeletion of a property from the World Heritage List is aloss for all of humanity.

Properties have only been deleted from the WorldHeritage list twice in the past: once for the "ArabianOryx Sanctuary" in Oman, and once for the "DresdenElbe Valley" in Germany.

This exceptional decision suggests the need forsupport through effective planning ahead, guidelinesfor integration of new construction into historicalcontexts, trans-disciplinary dialogue and transversalcooperation of city departments, among others.Debates on these topics focused on howcontextualised sustainable development is the onlyway to reconcile preservation and development. TheLiverpool property was inscribed on the WorldHeritage List in 2004 and on the List of World Heritagein Danger in 2012 after concerns about the proposeddevelopment of Liverpool Waters and other projectswithin the site and its buffer zone. Read more here. The Fuzhou Declaration was also adopted during thesession. The declaration reiterates the principle of theConvention Concerning the Protection of the WorldCultural and Natural Heritage and calls for scaling upsupport to developing countries, especially to Africancountries and Small Island Developing States.

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The 44th Session of the Committee reviewed over 250State of Conservation reports of World Heritageproperties. (A full list of the State of Conservationreports can be consulted here.) 72 of these propertiesare part of the World Heritage Cities Programme.

Of these 72 properties:

· 65% presented issues related to “heritageconservation”, mostly linked to weak or inadequateconservation plans and the need to carry out HeritageImpact Assessments.

· 54% indicated difficulties related to their “buffer zoneand boundaries” including the need for better boundarydefinitions and minor boundary modifications.

· 49% had issues related to “urban development andpressures”, often involving the construction of newfacilities and the enactment of urban regulations,especially in Africa, Europe and North America.

· 44% indicated that their “management plans” wereunder preparation, being revised or updated.

· Other pressures noted include “inadequatemanagement frameworks” (43%), “infrastructuredevelopment” (40%) and “inadequate governance”(32%).

After reviewing the reports, the Committee recognisedthree properties – the Great Wall of China, Tai NationalPark and Comoe National Park (both of the latterlocated in Cote d'Ivoire) – as good cases ofconservation and management.

Salonga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) © Kim S. Gjerstad

"Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City" Geoff Mason © OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection.

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Side Event focused on the Conservationand Sustainable Urban Development ofthe Historic Urban Landscape

Held on the afternoon of July 17, 2021, this side event focused onConservation and Sustainable Development of the Historic UrbanLandscape. Organised by the Beijing Municipal Administration ofCultural Heritage and ICOMOS China, with inputs from the WorldHeritage Centre, it featured well-known experts on the topic of“Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Historic UrbanLandscape.” Major metropolitan centres in the world today often havea historic core that faces pressures from contemporary urbandevelopment, heritage for which the HUL recommendation can serveas an important management tool.

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The 4th World Heritage Site Managers'ForumWorld Heritage Young Professionals

ForumIn a first since the initiative’s launch in 1995, the 2021 edition ofthe Forum was held in a virtual format, in conjunction with theextended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee. 31young professionals from 29 countries across the globeparticipated in the Forum from 5 to 9 July 2021, exchanging withheritage experts and engaging with one another, on themesrelevant to World Heritage.

The young professionals brought along diverse perspectives toheritage conservation, with local insights and on-the-groundexperiences from their own countries. Over the course of fivedays, they explored the concepts of World Heritage governance,sustainable tourism, and community empowerment with regards toheritage. Multiple discussions, lectures, workshops, and virtualsite visits were led by experts in the matter. Explore the website and video

Other news from the 44th World HeritageCommittee

The World Heritage Site Managers’ Forum was established at the41st session of World Heritage Committee in 2017, and hasbecome one of the fixed components of World Heritage Committeesessions.

The 4th edition of the World Heritage Site Managers' Forum washeld online from around the world from 7 to 13 July. 92 participantscoming from 85 World Heritage properties around the world joinedthe discussion with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre andAdvisory Bodies (ICCROM, IUCN and ICOMOS) on the theme ofWorld Heritage Governance, namely "Being prepared to managechange and continuity".

During the 6-day forum, heritage experts and representatives ofvarious Chinese heritage institutions took the opportunity to makeuse of Kulangsu, a Historic International Settlement as case studyto work with and learn about the management and governancestructure of the World Heritage property. Learn more

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Screenshot of participation statistics. ©Mapbox/OpenStreetMap

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Also from UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Afghanistan - UNESCO calls for theprotection of cultural heritage in itsdiversity

Amid the rapidly unfolding events, and twenty years after thedeliberate destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, part of theBamiyan Valley World Heritage site, UNESCO Director-GeneralAudrey Azoulay called "for the preservation of Afghanistan’scultural heritage in its diversity, in full respect of international law,and for taking all necessary precautions to spare and protectcultural heritage from damage and looting”.

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Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan © UNESCO

Looking into the future: Highlights ofthe Regional Action Plan for Africa(2021‐2027)In parallel to the extended 44th session of the World HeritageCommittee, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC), in closecollaboration with the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF),organised an online side event, “Looking into the future: Highlightsof the Regional Action Plan for Africa (2021 – 2027)” on 30 July.The event reflected upon the objectives and challenges foreseen inthe implementation of the approved Action Plan (2021-2027) forAfrica, as a result of the report of the Third Cycle of the PeriodicReporting exercise in the region.

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Screenshot of the event.

Launch of an online consultationconcerning the perception of the Listof World Heritage in Danger At its 40th session (Istanbul/UNESCO, 2016), the World HeritageCommittee highlighted that the List of World Heritage in Dangerneeded to be better understood and therefore decided that thisissue be formally addressed in order to overcome the negativeperception of this component of the Reactive Monitoring process(Decision 40 COM 7).

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The World Heritage Centre was fullyengaged in the IUCN WorldConservation Congress in Marseille,France

Offering both in-person and virtual participation, the inclusive formatof the IUCN Congress enabled broad engagement from around theworld. Whether in-person or remotely, it was a critical moment to beinvolved in the IUCN Congress. The event helped drive globalaction needed to address biodiversity issues, and offered a uniqueplatform for government, business, and civil society to collaboratefor nature conservation.

Learn more / Read the Declaration

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Heritage Night 2020 Spanish WorldHeritage Cities Group

LA NOCHE DEL PATRIMONIO was an unprecedented world-classcultural and artistic event that took place simultaneously in the 15Spanish World Heritage Cities. On 18 September, the best ofinternational contemporary dance, UNESCO World Heritage sitesand local culture expressions lit up the cityscape of the 15 SpanishHeritage Cities with a spectacular celebration that was open to thepublic free of charge, as well as online (with the support of theWorld Heritage Centre).

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Over a hundred respondents have supported the HUL Call for Action.Among them:

·High-level experts from Europa Nostra, the Getty ConservationInstitute, the Islamic Development Bank, the Cité de l'architecture et dupatrimoine, and the World Meteorological Organization

·UNESCO Chairs such as the UNESCO Chairs of "Sustainable UrbanQuality and Urban Culture, notably in Africa” at Sapienza University ofRome, Italy; “Heritage Values” at Delft University of Technology,Netherlands;

The HUL Call for Action is ongoing!

International Youth Day - WorldHeritage hand-in-hand with sustainablelivelihoods

International Youth Day took place on 12 August: a day where wefocus on the future guardians of our irreplaceable UNESCO WorldHeritage. If heritage is what we leave behind for future generations,we need to work with young people to protect it. This InternationalYouth Day, we wished to highlight the Young Professionals Forumwhich took place during the extended 44th session of the WorldHeritage Committee. Watch the video

Screenshot of the event.

Click here to join the Call for Action: 2011 UNESCORecommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape.

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other academic chairs including those of “CulturalHeritage and Digital Memory” at Baskent University,Turkey; “Inclusive Museums and Sustainable HeritageDevelopment” at the International Centre for InclusiveCultural Leadership, Ahmedabad, India; “CulturalHeritage and Sustainable Development” at San Martínde Porres University, Peru.

·Category 2 Centres, universities, municipalities, sitemanagers, groups, companies, associations andindividuals from 50 countries around the world.

We encourage you to join the UNESCO HUL networkas well as the HUL Call to Action. Your participation,ideas and actions will be essential for further localizingand implementing the HUL Approach.

Click here to join the Call for Action: 2011UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic

Urban Landscape.

The World Heritage Cities Programme is collaboratingwith the cities of Cordoba (Spain), Kyiv (Ukraine), SaintPetersburg (Russian Federation), the WorldMonuments Fund and the Ministry of Education,Culture and Science of the Netherlands to developfollow-up events in the framework of the Anniversarycelebrations of the HUL Recommendation.

These events will explore in detail the scenarios andrecommendations outlined in the sessions that tookplace in June 2021.

The debates will be essential for localising theimplementation of the Recommendation.

Learn more about ongoing celebrations of the 10thAnniversary of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendationon the Historic Urban Landscape.

HUL Anniversary follow-up events from October to December 2021

Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments (Russian Federation) © Ko Hon Chiu Vincent

Upcoming events

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From the World Heritage Canopy Platform

City focusCity Focus is a corner for the World Heritage Cities and other historic citiesto share their actions and initiatives. Share yours!

Mantua and Sabbioneta (Italy) © Valerio Li Vigni

Creating a shared framework in theserial World Heritage property ofMantua and Sabbioneta (Italy)

Mantua and Sabbioneta are two historical cities locatedin the Po valley, in the north of Italy. Mantua, aprovincial capital, has a population of just under 50,000,while the town of Sabbioneta has just over 4,000residents. The cities, located approximately 30 kmapart, are components of the World Heritage serialproperty Mantua and Sabbioneta, inscribed on theWorld Heritage list in 2008 under criteria (ii) and (iii).

In order to improve the coordination between the twocomponent cities of this serial property, theMunicipalities of Mantua and Sabbioneta have createda central management office.

This office is in charge of protecting and enhancing thesite’s Outstanding Universal Value through theimplementation of the Management Plan and jointpolicies and initiatives.

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Additional case studies fromQuerétaro and Puebla (Mexico) andmany others from the HULAnniversary forthcoming

Additional case studies will be released on WorldHeritage Canopy over the coming months in order topromote the experiences of World Heritage cities thathave successfully implemented principles from theHistoric Urban Landscape Recommendation. Theseand the many other case studies on heritageconservation are meant to serve as a platform forsharing experiences. Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro

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Reflections from an ExpertUrban Upgrading for post-COVID Sustainable andInclusive Settlements is also for Historic Cities in IsDBMember Countries

COVID-19, declared a global pandemic by the WHO,crippled the global economy and upset people’s lives. Indoing so, it threatened sustainable development across allits dimensions. Urban areas were and are the epicenters ofthe pandemic: over 95 per cent of confirmed COVID-19cases are in urban areas. This includes many historiccities. In just a few months, the pandemic dramaticallytransformed the way people live, work, shop and socializeglobally.

In response to pandemics such as COVID-19 virus, cities(particularly large, densely settled ones, including historiccentres) will need to be supported by new assessmenttools, planning guidelines, investments, and other disasterpreparedness support that will help improve their resilienceto and post-impact recovery from health-based naturaldisasters. A recent study from WHO/UN-Habitat hasdemonstrated the strong linkages between Health andUrban & Territorial Planning.

How to help human settlements, including historic cities,tackle the pandemic? There are several ways of supportinghistoric cities, slums and informal settlements to beresilient against COVID-19. This resistance against thepandemic includes specially targeted measures to improveurban spacing, enhance health care facilities, and increaseawareness of city populations of the actions to take toimprove resilience against natural disasters, such asCOVID. This involves issues, not limited to the following:

·Financing programs for urban slums and informalsettlements upgrading, as well as de-risking private sectorinvolvement in slums and informal settlements upgrading.

·Alternative financing from donors, multilateral and bilateraldevelopment agencies, and international organizations.

. Helping cities and towns build capacity in planningdepartments to avoid urbanization and informal settlementson unprotected land, wetlands and riverbanks

·Cities are also faced with financial difficulties, lacking theresources to invest in the resources required.

·Many countries have focused on recovery efforts in theirprimate cities, with ever increasing backlogs of slums andland to be regularized or otherwise dealt with. Secondarycities somewhat neglected, seen as administrative centersand not economic drivers or links between regionaleconomies and rural areas.

Dr. Papa Sy, Global Lead Urban Development

Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

·Heritage conservation and adaptive reuse of historic urbanfabric and building using local materials and technology

In Indonesia, for example, IsDB has financed 90% of anapproximately USD$365M National slum upgradingprogramme lasting from 2016 through 2021. In response tothe Covid crisis, some of this funding was reoriented toenvironmental and community health improvement(developing water sanitation and healthcare infrastructure inaddition to safer housing) and strengthening the nationalsafety net (through cash-for-work programmes, for example)to maintain purchasing power. Such efforts can be especiallyuseful for historic urban centres that are dense and include alarge proportion of the city’s poor. In Bahrain, the Bank hasfinanced in 2014 the Muharraq Pearling Heritage and UrbanEconomic Revival Project. The Government of Bahrainthrough its Ministry of Culture (now “BACA- Bahrain Authorityfor Culture & Antiquities”) requested the support from IsDB todevelop Pearling Path project that aims to preserve heritageassets of the city (part of UNESCO Heritage list), improvelivability and mobility of Muharraq residents, and at the sametime promoting tourism to improve local economy and fix thepopulation.

Broadly, healthy historic cities rely upon a commitment toimprove a city's environs and a willingness to forge thenecessary connections in political, economic, and socialarenas to i) provide a health-supportive environment ii)provide a good quality of life, iii) basic sanitation & hygieneneeds, and iv) supply access to health care - while alsoprotecting their heritage values and historic identity.

These principles correspond to the objectives promoted bythe New Urban Agenda (NUA) with the SustainableDevelopment Goal 11 (SDG 11) and the commitment toworking towards “leaving no one behind and no spacebehind”.

IsDB is well-positioned to be a supportive partner for helpingachieve these goals on the ground, bringing crucially neededtechnical know-how and financing to promote urbanupgrading for post-COVID sustainable and inclusivesustainable development integrated with heritageconservation in its member countries.

Putting African voices at the center ofCOP26

There is growing consensus that African cities in particular willhave a major role to play in the COP26, to be held in Glasgowfrom 31 October – 12 November 2021. The Covenant of Mayorsin Sub-Saharan Africa weighs in on climate finance, the role ofAfrican stakeholders at the COP26, and the attention given tocities in particular. Learn more

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City Climate Finance Gap Fundcompletes first year of operation withsupport to 33 citiesSeptember marks the 1-year anniversary of thje City ClimateFinance Gap Fund (the Gap Fund), which has now approvedtechnical assistance for 33 cities in India, Mexico, Ethiopia,Morocco, Democratic Republic of Congo, Panama, Senegal,Vietnam, Kosovo, Montenegro, Ecuador, South Africa, Vanuatu,Colombia, Indonesia, Brazil, Guatemala, Uganda and Ukraine. Inthe link, discover the specific projects and cities involved and thenext cities in line for cooperation.

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Publications of Interest

UfM World Heritage City Lab Report

Read the conclusions, proceedings and findings from the WorldHeritage City Lab (May 2021) co-hosted by the UNESCO WorldHeritage Centre and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) on“Living with World Heritage: Adaptive Reuse and Regenerationfor Sustainable Cities”. The event notably featured urbanspecialists involved in the implementation of the 2011 UNESCORecommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HULRecommendation).

Read the report

Visitors Count

The new guidelines published by UNESCO and the German FederalAgency for Nature Conservation (BfN) put forward a standardmethodology for evaluating the impact of protected areas on the localeconomy.

Read the report

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2020 Annual report of the OWHCThe 2020 Annual Report of the OWHC is now available online. Itconstitutes a record of all the major events and projects carriedout by the Organization and its members during the past year.Among other things, the report summarises the key momentsand numbers of 2020, including the OWHC finances, and offers adescription of the new 2020 member cities.

Read the report

Opportunities

Director, Museums & CulturalProperty

The Arts Council England is looking for a new Director forMuseums and Cultural Property, to lead the new integratedMuseums, Collections and Cultural Property team, and play akey strategic role as part of the Arts Council’s senior leadershipteam.

Deadline: 14 October 2021

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Call for Proposals - Capacity buildingin Risk management and protectionsystems in Africa

Cultural heritage in all of its forms is also increasingly at risk dueto disasters caused by natural human-made hazards and in mostcases, the lack of risk management and protection systems waspointed out as having exacerbated these disasters.

The initiative is prepared by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre,the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation andRestoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the African WorldHeritage Fund (AWHF) and the Ecole du Patrimoine Africain(EPA) in close collaboration with seven African States Parties(Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal,The United Republic of Tanzania and Togo).

It aims to build the capacities of site managers in themanagement and evaluation of different risks to cultural heritageassociated with disasters and assist in the elaboration ofmitigation and preparedness measures to reduce risks to culturalheritage.

In this framework, a scientific coordinator will be recruited tolead and facilitate, with the support of the partner organisationsand the experts to be identified, the process of the trainingcontent production and other strategic documents.

Deadline: 30 September 2021

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Note: The practices shared in Urban Notebooks are not assessed in any way by the World Heritage Centre orpresented here as model practices nor do they represent complete solutions to heritage management problems.The views expressed by experts and site managers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of theWorld Heritage Centre. The practices and views shared here are included in Urban Notebooks as a way toprovide insights and expand the dialogue on urban heritage with a view to further urban heritage managementpractice in general.

The cases shared in Urban Notebooks address heritage protection practices in World Heritage sites andbeyond. Practices and examples showcased in the newsletter do not entail any recognition of inclusion inUNESCO’s World Heritage List or any of its thematic programmes.

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