Posted on 02. January 2005 um 13:02 Uhr
The disastrous flooding in South- and Southeast Asia not only affected the lives of millions of people, but also destroyed several Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, some of them listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Posted on 05. January 2005 um 14:44 Uhr
The ICOMOS Programm > H@R! Heritage at Risk < was started in 1999. Now annualy reports about Heritage Sites in Danger are published. In the last report (2002) there is a remarkable article about cultural heritage of the 20th century.
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Posted on 10. January 2005 um 11:29 Uhr
ICOMOS just published the Proceedings of the international Symposium: Place-Memory-Meaning: Preserving Intangible Values in Monuments and Sites that took place October 2003 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. One abstract deals with Intangibility in Historic Towns.
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Posted on 18. January 2005 um 09:29 Uhr
Luxembourg-City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But the whole country has a lot to offer.
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Posted on 20. January 2005 um 10:30 Uhr
Already 1999 UNESCO published the World Heritage Educational Resource Kit entitled World Heritage in young hands for teachers.
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Posted on 24. January 2005 um 10:52 Uhr
ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) just published the Report on the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and cultural heritage.
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Posted on 27. January 2005 um 09:16 Uhr
From now on i will explain relevant terms in the service-area in a glossary. Today the institution UNESCO is described.
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Posted on 31. January 2005 um 15:15 Uhr
In Germany and some other european countries the implementation of a so called City Marketing became popular within the last years.
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Posted on 05. February 2005 um 19:51 Uhr
The destruction of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Dubrovnik was prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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Posted on 09. February 2005 um 14:44 Uhr
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris just published the Revised Operational Guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. This Paper is providing the background for the implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
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Posted on 11. February 2005 um 09:05 Uhr
In China Road builders demolished parts of the Great Wall last month. The Stones were used to pave a road.
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Posted on 12. February 2005 um 16:37 Uhr
Every state that has signed the international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage has a so called Tentative List, in which cultural and natural sights are included that should be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Posted on 14. February 2005 um 15:14 Uhr
Already in february 2004 ICOMOS published its analysis of the UNESCO-World Heritage List called THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST:
FILLING THE GAPS - AN ACTION PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
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Posted on 16. February 2005 um 12:00 Uhr
The World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS and the City Council of Vienna is organizing a conference about World Heritage and Contemporary Architecture from 12th to 14th May 2005 in Vienna.
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Posted on 17. February 2005 um 18:34 Uhr
Besides its desastrous effects the tsunami in South- and Southeast-Asia also uncovered antique stone carvings.
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Posted on 19. February 2005 um 19:30 Uhr
Already for 10 years a german television show supports the safeguarding of unique historic buildings.
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Posted on 22. February 2005 um 18:19 Uhr
1999 the Berlin State-Owned Museums - Prussian Cultural Heritage set up a master plan for the Museum Island. Europe's largest cultural investment project is now implemented in Berlin.
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Posted on 27. February 2005 um 16:26 Uhr
The 8th World Symposium of the Organization of World Heritage Cities will take place in Cusco, Peru from 19th-23rd September 2005.
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Posted on 01. March 2005 um 18:54 Uhr
CIVVIH is the International Committee on Historic Towns and Villages within the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).
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Posted on 02. March 2005 um 17:02 Uhr
You can now apply for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation
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Posted on 05. March 2005 um 18:30 Uhr
Now 179 State Parties adopted the UNESCO-World Heritage
Convention. In Sierra Leone the Convention will enter into force on the 7th of April 2005.
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Posted on 07. March 2005 um 18:24 Uhr
New service available: Subscribe to the Email-Newsletter and get noified whenever a new article is posted in the Worldheritage-Forum Weblog.
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Posted on 09. March 2005 um 18:16 Uhr
The German Foundation for Monument Protection who is already publishing the (german only) magazine Monumente has now launched an online magazine called Monumente Online.
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Posted on 10. March 2005 um 08:49 Uhr
At the ITB which will take place in Berlin from the 11.-15.March 2005 you can inform yourself about the topic UNESCO-World Heritage.
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Posted on 14. March 2005 um 11:24 Uhr
Integrate free News on the topic of UNESCO World Heritage on your website.
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Posted on 15. March 2005 um 16:55 Uhr
Maybe german cities are soon allowed to collect a city-maut fee for vehicles. Could this be a solution for the traffic problems of some UNESCO-World Heritage Cities?
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Posted on 15. March 2005 um 17:10 Uhr
Do you work in a field related to UNESCO World Heritage topics? You want to report about a UNESCO-World Heritage City you know? Become an
author and write your own weblog article in this blog!
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Posted on 17. March 2005 um 17:15 Uhr
Last year i visited Santiago de Compostela in Spain. An interesting UNESCO World Heritage City bustling with students.
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Posted on 19. March 2005 um 19:55 Uhr
UNESCO will send an evaluation team to Aksum in northern Ethiopia to prepare the return of the famous Obelisk from Aksum. The obelisk has been brought to Rome in 1937 by the order of Benito Mussolini.
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Posted on 21. March 2005 um 18:13 Uhr
Already 2003 it was decided that UNESCO should prepare a draft of the Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Contents and Artistic Expressions. Now a preliminary report has been submitted to the Member States.
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Posted on 24. March 2005 um 10:37 Uhr
The european research project PICTURE aims to develop a strategic urban governance framework for the sustainable management of cultural tourism within small and medium-sized european cities. Some of the research objects are relevant for UNESCO World Heritage Cities.
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Posted on 31. March 2005 um 10:43 Uhr
UNESCO and Nasa just signed a Cooperation agreement to use Space technology for the monitoring and conservation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Within the Open Initative already several other partners are working together in this field.
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Posted on 03. April 2005 um 18:29 Uhr
The extensive doctoral thesis by Jukka Jokilehto A History of Architectural Conservation (already written 1986) is now available online through the ICCORM Website.
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Posted on 08. April 2005 um 13:27 Uhr
In the United Staates of Amerika 8 cultural sites and 12 natural sites are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Posted on 19. April 2005 um 14:03 Uhr
I will hold a speech at the conference Cultural Tourism: the challenge of European integration organized by the European Institute of Cultural Routes in Luxembourg from April 21-22.
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Posted on 25. April 2005 um 18:43 Uhr
The History of Architecture in Chicago is 130 years old: The great fire from Chicago destroyed 1871 large parts of the city. With the rebuilding the face of the city changed. Among the architects of the world-famous scyscrapers are Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Posted on 27. April 2005 um 18:07 Uhr
At the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Aksum a team of
scientists that has been sent by UNESCO discovered underground chambers and arcades under the site’s parking ground.
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Posted on 30. April 2005 um 14:50 Uhr
This conference mainly dealt with cultural routes. Many of them are touching UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In Europe at the moment a lot of new cultural routes are emerging.
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Posted on 06. May 2005 um 19:16 Uhr
ViaStoria is the name of several projects within the context of the History of traffic routes in Switzerland. Among it is the tourism project Cultural routes.
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Posted on 10. May 2005 um 15:50 Uhr
At a conference, organized in february 2005 by the World Tourism Organsiation, the UNESCO, and the Government of the Sultanate of Oman in Muscat, the The Muscat Declaration on Built Environments for Sustainable Tourism was agreed upon.
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Posted on 17. May 2005 um 17:58 Uhr
From 12th to 14th of May in the historic town hall of Vienna the conference with the subtitel Managing the historic Urban Landscape took place. Central in the debate was the question how much modern architecture UNESCO World Heritage Cities can tolerate.
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Posted on 21. May 2005 um 14:16 Uhr
Already last year the discussion about new high-rise buildings on the bank of the rhine opposite to the Cologne Cathedral started.
UNESCO says the famous position of the cathedral in the City-Silhouette is affected.
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Posted on 30. May 2005 um 18:39 Uhr
The 15th General Assembly of ICOMOS will be held in Xi'an, China from 17th to 21st of October 2005. The accompanying scientific symposium deals with the conservation of monuments and sites in changing townscapes and landscapes.
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Posted on 02. June 2005 um 10:58 Uhr
On 5th of June will be the first german World Heritage Day. At many World Heritage Sites special activities are conducted.
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Posted on 25. June 2005 um 13:07 Uhr
The New York-based World Monuments Fund is a private, nonprofit organization devoted to onsite conservation of monuments and sites worldwide. Every two years the World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites is published by WMF. This instrument focuses international attention on the cultural significance of and threats to endangered sites worldwide, and helps to raise the funds needed for their rescue.
restauration renovation culturalheritage worldheritage unesco preservation architecture icomos news
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Posted on 22. December 2005 um 19:28 Uhr
We are approaching the end of the year: To all who are involved in the safeguarding of heritage and those who are interested in it: Merry X-mas!
xmass year-end
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