Given the projected continued growth of urbanisation in the world, with currently around half of the world's population living in urban areas, pressure on historic cities and their historic urban landscape will continue to mount, making urban and landscape conservation one of the most dynamic and daunting tasks of our time. At the same time cities must remain must remain prospering, competitive centres, offering space for new, innovative developments and exciting architecture. The conference "World Heritage and Contemporary Architecture" addressed the question, how to properly regulate the needs for modernisation of our daily urban environment, while at the same time safeguarding the irreplaceable heritage of historic cities.

The "Vienna Memorandum", adopted by the conference, includes guidelines and measures which are meant to contribute to a fruitful coexistence of historic and contemporary architecture. The report contains a summary of the conference, the final version of the Vienna Memorandum and a catalogue of the exhibition " Vienna. World Heritage and Contemporary Architecture" that was presented during the conference.

01/01/2005

Arnold Klotz, Director for Urban Planning & World Heritage Coordinator Vienna; Andrea Kreppenhofer, City of Vienna, Department for Architecture and Urban Design (MA 19); Eugen Antalovsky, Denisa Gibovic & Johannes Lutter, Europaforum Wien; Kerstin Manz & Ron van Oers, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris; Manfred Wehdorn, Wehdorn Architekten Vienna

research

Urban Policy > Urban environment

Cultural heritage