World Heritage City Webinar: Re-thinking Urban Heritage for Recovery and Resilience

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17 June 2020 online 13:00h - 15:30h Paris time (UTC+2).
The ongoing global health crisis due to the COVID-19 has brought sharply into focus the fragility of our cities. We stand at the cross-roads to consider pathways to recovery and enhancing the resilience of people everywhere. In light of the new challenges that the current health crisis has presented to cities worldwide, UNESCO introduces its World Heritage City Webinar on ‘Re-thinking Urban Heritage for Resilience and Recovery.’ The World Heritage City Webinar is an innovation laboratory to analyse, assess, and explore strategies for the protection and management of World Heritage properties in the urban context. World Heritage Cities serve as practical and valuable laboratories to engage with, disagree, invent, and reflect on collectively on the issues and challenges facing World Heritage Cities. The World Heritage City Webinar is an activity of the World Heritage Cities Programme, one of the six thematic programmes formally approved and monitored by the World Heritage Committee. In line with the implementation of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, the World Heritage City Webinar aims to recover the notion of heritage cities as thriving urban centres using heritage-based strategies to build back the cities to be stronger, more sustainable, more resilient, and more deeply connected to their histories and landscape.
Panel 1: Mr. Satya Tripathi (UN Assistant Secretary General, UN Environment), Ms. Cherie Nursalim (Vice Chairman of GITI Group), Ms. Souad Abderrahim (Mayor of Tunis, Tunisia), Mr Mato Franković (Mayor of Dubrovnic, Croatia), Mr. Arun Garg (Additional Commissioner, Jaipur Municipal Corporation, Jaipur Greater and Heritage, India), Mr. Juan Carlos Medina (Mayor of Vigan, Philippines).
Panel 2: Mr. Pier Luigi Sacco (Head of Venice Office, OECD), Mr. Michael Sudarkasa (CEO, Africa Business Group), Ms. Rebecca Abers (Professor, Universidade de Brasilia), Mr. Omar Mohammed Famau (Mayor of Lamu, Kenya), Mr Miguel Antonio Parrodi Espinosa (Municipal Trustee of Queretaro, Mexico), Ms. Stefania Proietti (Mayor of Assisi, Italy).
Watch the sessions
Day 1: Re-thinking Urban Heritage for Recovery and Resilience
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Day 2: Well-being and local communities
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Day 3: Heritage at the core of local economic development strategies
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Day 4: Re-thinking urban infrastructure in historic urban contexts
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Day 5: Heritage-based recovery and resilience: Way forward
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