Publicomos

Réf.

42306

Type

conference item

Titre

Walk to global vision: driving heritage development by world heritage award: Macau - a colony with east west culture

Langues

English

Auteurs

Mok, Keng Kio

Date

21/05/2012

Pages

p. 62-67

Titre de conférence

ICOMOS 17th General Assembly

Lieu de conférence

Paris, France

Date de conférence

2011-11-27 / 2011-12-02

Mots-clés

Venice Charter / conservation / cultural development / public awareness / urban areas / urban development / urbanization / town and country planning / town planning legislation / conservation of cultural heritage / legislation / colonialism / protection / protection of cultural heritage / monuments / historic buildings / historic towns

Pays mentionnés

China

Monuments et sites

City of Macau (south-east coast of China)

Résumé en anglais

Macau is a place of East meets West for over 400 years at the south-east coast of China. It was a colony of Portugal before it was handover to the Chinese Government to become a Special Administrative Region of China in 1999. Macau is now the second most compact city with highest gaming return in the world. Since the monopoly of gambling license ended in 2000, Macau undergone its ever fastest urbanizationwith huge “Las Vegas”-style casinos being constructed in 24-hour non-stop manner. The central district and seashore are all bounded by casinos. This paper will discuss the enormous threats from casino development to the urban cultural landscape of Macau. The recent two World Heritage Award submissions during colonial period before 1999 and the post-colonial period after 1999 had successfully inputted global vision to Macau’s heritage development for resistance to these threats. How these two submissions had prompted changes in governance management practice, conservation priority and new interpretation of Macau’s heritage monuments would be discussed. In 2005, “The Historic Centre of Macao” was granted the World Heritage Award by UNESCO. In view of great disturbance from imbalanced casino development, Macau’s heritage development was further driven by this award. Macau’s unique conservation example in successfully inputting global vision to drive heritage development through World Heritage Award submission enlightens all other heritage conservation projects in the world.

URL

http://www.icomos.org/fr/component/content/article/157-articles-en-francais/ressources/publications/477

Document joint

I-1-Article6_Mok.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)