Old Cities, New Challenges Course

The Getty Conservation Institute and Think City are organsising an online course on Urban Conservation running from 22 April to 17 June 2024.

Created for mid-career urban planners, architects, and associated urban conservation professionals from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, “Old Cities, New Challenges” seeks to teach participants how to manage the challenges of a historic site in their respective cities.

Topics to be addressed include:

• Examination of international approaches, including Historic Urban Landscape
• Documentation of tangible and intangible heritage assets, including cultural mapping -Identification of cultural significance of historic places, resulting in a statement of significance
• Heritage economics, related to cultural capital and sustainability
  Infill development in historic areas
• Goals, strategies, and components of an urban conservation plan, resulting in participants’ drafting a plan for a specific site and conducting a heritage impact assessment.

The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, particularly the “six steps’’ and “four tools,” will be used as a key methodology to demonstrate how useful they are in sustainable urban conservation. The course will also explore the meaning and implications of sustainability concerning the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Source: Old Cities, New Challenges Course | Getty Projects