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“As cities in the global South urbanise at rapid rates and cities in the North face their own challenges, it is timely to think and experiment with new ways of thinking and acting in the cultural heritage and urban development sphere” says Mistra Urban Futures’ Beth Perry, Laura Ager and Rike Sitas in an article recently published by the International Journal of Herita

Read more about New paper on festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development published by the International Journal of Heritage Studies

New project announced from British Academy Sustainable Development Programme.

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Festivals are international cultural practices, taking plural forms and expressions across the world. They offer an empirical lens to enrich our understanding about how tangible and intangible cultural heritage combine, collide, conflict and cohere. Festivals are a spatially and temporally bounded public sphere, a break from normality that surfaces and reveals understandings of and approaches to culture and heritage in very different contexts.

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The New Urban Agenda, signed in Quito Ecuador in 2016, calls for a broad and holistic understanding of the strategies and approaches needed to develop more sustainable urban transformations.

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New paper on festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development published by the International Journal of Heritage Studies

Whose Heritage Matters?

New Festivals Report Published

Cultural Heritage and the Just City