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UNESCO
Declaration on the Conservation of Historic Urban
Landscapes
(2005)
The central challenge of contemporary architecture in the historic urban landscape
is to respond to development dynamics in order to facilitate socio-economic
changes and growth on the one hand, while simultaneously respecting the
inherited townscape and its landscape setting on the other.
The General Assembly:
c. emphazises the need to properly contextualize contemporary architecture
in the historic urban landscape and stresses the importance of undertaking studies to
analyze the impact on cultural
heritage