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The Harvard
Center for Urban Development Studies and
US-ICOMOS
organized a three-day conference as part
of the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the World Cultural
and Natural Heritage Convention. Protecting the Cultural and Natural
Heritage the Western Hemisphere: Lessons from the Past; Looking to the
Future was held at Harvard Graduate School of Design on December
5-7, 2002. It was the last of a series of worldwide events held under
the aegis of the UNESCO
World Heritage Center (in Budapest,
London, Paris, Potsdam, Strasbourg and Venice) and it followed the General
Assembly meeting in New York marking the end of the U.N. Year for Cultural
Heritage. This was the only event in the series to take place in the
Americas.
The Conference was
structured around themes illustrating problems in safeguarding cultural
and natural heritage and innovative approaches for addressing them.
Exemplary cases of natural, cultural and archaeological sites in North
and Latin America were presented by the institutions and professionals
responsible for them, highlighting successful practices, new initiatives,
and emerging forms of partnership for the preservation of World Heritage
in the Western Hemisphere.
Additional funding
has been provided by the following institutions:
In kind support has been provided
by the following institutions:
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