-
Historic Cities and their Survival in a Globalized World
- Change Over Time
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2011
- pp. 110-128
- 10.1353/cot.2011.a430739
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
In September 2009 you delivered one of the keynote addresses to the Tenth World Congress of the Organization of World Heritage Cities in Quito, Ecuador, a group dedicated to defining strategies for the identification and preservation of the world’s historic cities. Let me begin by asking you to define the historic city and why it is important to us today?