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Why Culture Matters in the Reconstruction and Recovery of Cities

 
With an ever bigger urban population being af

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Cities, Culture, Creativity: Learning from the Republic of Korea’s Experience

This report describes examples demonstrating the leading role that Korea can play globally and provides practical insights on the importance of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) for economi

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Building Back Stronger: Urban Resilience Through Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Rebuilding cities and towns after protracted conflict is a more common occurrence than many

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Uzbekistan: Resilient Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

In Uzbekistan, authorities instituted strong health and so

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Resilient Cultural Heritage: Learning from the Japanese Experience

Japan’s cultural heritage (CH) is among the richest in the world,

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Seoul's Experience in Cultural Heritage Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration

This report details the evolution of Seoul’s efforts since the 1960s to balance all three elements of this critical equation: cultural heritage, sustainable tourism, and urban

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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto

The World Bank Group (WBG) has long recognized that the restoration and preservationof cultura

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Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery

As urban growth and development continue at a breathtaking pace across the world, cities are

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Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is vulnerable to the adverse impacts of natural disasters, and climate cha

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Inclusive Heritage-Based City Development Program in India

This report summarizes the motivation, objectives, methodology, results and lessons learned

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Climate-resilient, Climate-friendly World Heritage Cities

While the negative impacts of climate change on urban areas are well-known and widely discus

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Culture Counts: Partnership activities of the World Bank and Italian Development Cooperation on Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development

The partnership between the World Bank and Italian Development Cooperation was established around the role of culture in sustainable development.

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The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development

With rapid urbanization, cities featuring valuable historic cores and heritage assets strugg

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Investment in Urban Heritage: Economic Impacts of Cultural Heritage Projects in FYR Macedonia and Georgia

Although World Bank projects in the cultural heritage field are subject to the usual assessm

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Conserving the Past as a Foundation for the Future: China-World Bank Partnership on Cultural Heritage Conservation

The rich cultural heritage of China is an essential touchstone of its collective identity.

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Disaster Preparedness for Cultural Heritage

A comprehensive guide on disaster preparedness for cultural heritage was produced by the int

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Cultural Heritage and Development: A Framework for Action in the Middle East and North Africa

The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are blessed with an extraordinary cultural patrimony, secular and religious, of huge importance for each country and fo

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