Advanced Theory in Urban and Architectural Heritage Conservation

Lecturer

Prof. Richard A Engelhardt

Guest Professor, School of Architecture, SEU

formal UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the Pacific

Initiator and full president of the Jury of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation

Coordinator

Prof.Dong Wei

UNESCO Chair in Cultural Resource Management

Secretariat of UNESCO-ICCROM Asian Academy for Heritage Management

Director, Academic Committee of Urban Planning History and Theory, UPSC

Head, SEU Key Laboratory of Urban and Architectural Heritage Conservation, Ministry of Education, China

Course Topic

Cultural heritage conservation in the Asia-pacific Region under the background of large scale urbanization

According to the urban development reports of the United Nations and the World Bank, the Asia-Pacific region will have the fastest rate of urbanization in the next 30 years in the world. By 2050, around 2.4 billion rural population will flow into cities in the region. Asia's urbanization will thoroughly re-shape the world's social, economic, and urban structure, and the theories of urban planning and heritage conservation will also change dramatically.

The Asia-Pacific region is one of the important birthplaces of human civilization. In the long history, more than 1000 ethnic groups in the region have built more than 3000 historical cities, and handed down numerous valuable architectural heritages. In the process of rapid and massive urbanization, how to protect and develop Asian urban and architectural heritage is a serious and long-term challenge for Asian countries.

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