Looking towards the future of world urban development, cities of the global south will: urp300010/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The tangible (or material) heritage of cities - objects, monuments, industrial areas, natural landscapes, infrastructures, and historic centres and neighbourhoods – enriches the culture of communities as markers of history and for creating and transferring a sense of place to new generations. Inexorably place-based, it constitutes a dynamic layering of heritage values, created, interpreted and shaped by successive generations over time. Urban heritage, including its tangible and intangible elements, is a key social, cultural and economic asset for cities. ![]() One can only reiterate at Habitat III, with even greater urgency, the need for a new paradigm of urban development that of human-centred cities where people and their well-being are the aim of development, and are actors in this process by harnessing culture, ‘…the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, …that encompasses … art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs’. But the sheer rate of growth in our cities from natural growth and accelerated rates of migration have resulted in further degradation in the quality of life, particularly for a quarter of the world’s urban dwellers living in slums. ![]() To be sure, important achievements have since been made, with tens of millions of urban dwellers lifted from poverty thanks to rapid economic growth. Our cities, far from being humanized, have become increasingly unfriendly to people. ![]() Since then, another one billion inhabitants and close to half a billion motorized vehicles have been added to our cities, producing an estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste per year. Twenty years ago at Habitat II, UNESCO appealed to ‘ humanize the city’. ![]()
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