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Conservation of the Urban Identity (Part 2): Rehabilitation

Posted on Sunday, Nov 8th

By Guest Author Vaswar Mitra Should a city struggling to provide its residents with basic amenities concern itself with issues of heritage conservation and identity? For the postcolonial cities that are facing this crisis, it is important to start considering the built heritage as a major economic driver and to encourage private investment in this

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Conservation of the Urban Identity (Part 1): Urban Architecture

Posted on Sunday, Nov 1st

By Guest Author Vaswar Mitra Cultural heritage can be regarded as any existing element that is a part of the traditions, lifestyles, knowledge, and ideas of a group of people. Of these, ‘built heritage’ implies monuments and works of architecture that are of historical and artistic importance. Urban architecture is in fact a representation of

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