At the 30th session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, that will take place from 8th to 16th of July in Vilnius, among other subjects the inscription of 37 new World Heritage Sites will be discussed.
The new and old towns of Edinburgh are inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. While the medival fortress is dominating the central old town the new town was build in neoclassical style.
In the US already for 25 years the Main Street Program tries to revitalize historic commercial districts. The idea is to combine preservation and economic development in one strategy.
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