Publicomos

Réf.

42426

Type

conference item

Titre

Revitalization of historic inner-city areas in Asia: Urban renewal potentials in Jakarta, Hanoi and Manila

Langues

English

Auteurs

Steinberg, Florian

Date

21/05/2012

Pages

p. 836-848

Titre de conférence

ICOMOS 17th General Assembly

Lieu de conférence

Paris, France

Date de conférence

2011-11-27 / 2011-12-02

Mots-clés

revitalization / interventions / management plans / historic town centres / projects / rehabilitation / banks / financial assistance / urban renewal / town centres / urban development / case studies / town planning / urban areas / residential areas / historic quarters / private funding / public funding / partnerships / Asia / town and country planning / typology / historic towns

Pays mentionnés

Indonesia / Philippines / Viet Nam

Monuments et sites

Manila, Philippines / Jakarta, Indonesia / Hanoi, Vietnam

Résumé en anglais

A strategy for inner-city revitalization projects in Manila, Jakarta and Hanoi will need to be based on staged, highly interactive and participatory processes with public and private stakeholders. The strategy will be incremental and process-based, starting with small and strategic interventions which will build up to a broad coverage of the inner city areas. For ‘partnerships’ with the private sector to succeed it will be necessary to develop policies and projects that demonstrate how a clear concern for affordability of the less wealthy citizens and businesses in historic city centres can be combined with a commercial orientation of conservation. More specifically, private sector project concepts need to be developed for application in the urban conservation context. To make it happen an enabling legislation and framework is required, and an opening of the market, including of the removal of rent controls which have frozen developments in many historic city centres. Open minded city management can support this process through the provision of guidelines, model documents and contracts in order to generate the right confidence and investment stimuli. Heritage can become a driver of development. The Preparation of Asia’s cities towards the 21st century has to take into account the historic centres, attempt their revitalization and equip them for the challenges of globalization and environmental viability.

Document joint

IV-2-Article7_Steinberg.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (BY-NC)