15-19 May 2017 / International Expert Meeting on the Role of the Historic Urban Landscape approach in the Arab Region, Tanger Maroc

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15-19 May 2017 / International Expert Meeting on the Role of the Historic Urban Landscape approach in the Arab Region, Tanger Maroc

Within the framework of the World Heritage Regional Programme for the Arab States, the World Heritage Centre will organize, from 15 to 19 May next, in Tangier (Morocco), an international expert meeting on the role of the historic urban landscape approach in the conservation of cultural landscapes.
In its first part, this meeting will deal with several cases of cultural landscapes, from different regions of the world, inscribed on the World Heritage List. It will then address the issue of identification and protection of this category of cultural properties in the Arab region and, finally, discuss the project of nomination of the heritage of the city of Chefchaouen (Morocco), for inscription on the World Heritage List.
The meeting will be held in a special context marked by the adoption, in September 2015, of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and notably Sustainable Development Goal 11 on "Sustainable cities and communities". It will also integrate the adoption, in October 2016, of the New Urban Agenda by the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III). This new context calls for the reinforcement of the role of culture, including the protection and conservation of cultural heritage, in development strategies.
The objectives of the meeting are to explore how the historic urban landscape approach can be used for the conservation and management of cultural landscapes that hold urban attributes, with a focus on the Arab region, and to deal with the case of the city of Chefchaouen.