Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places
James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the importance of preserving culture, cities and architecture, and sacred sites. The international system has to be built on structure, on governance, on justice, on legal systems, on social systems, but it also has to be built on his...
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okr-10986-261692021-04-23T14:04:20Z Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places Wolfensohn, James D. SACRED SITES READING ARCHITECTS SLUMS ARTS CULTURES THOUGHT PICTURES ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE CREATIVITY CRAFTS CULTURAL PROPERTY TRANSPARENCY RELIGIOUS PLACES IDENTITY TIME SCHOOLS POVERTY EXPERIENCE RESTORATION MOSQUES BUILDING CHURCHES ART CULTURAL CONTINUITY TOURISM SOCIAL STRUCTURES LEARNING CULTURAL HISTORY HISTORY MONUMENTS NATIONAL PARK CITIES CIVILIZATION PERFORMING ARTS HISTORIES INFRASTRUCTURE PRESERVATION CULTURE HISTORIC CITIES MEGACITIES GOVERNANCE HISTORIC PLACES James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the importance of preserving culture, cities and architecture, and sacred sites. The international system has to be built on structure, on governance, on justice, on legal systems, on social systems, but it also has to be built on history and culture. You do not have to have a dollar sign on something for it to be valuable or for it to be essential. You cannot have an international financial architecture built on sand. He discussed the overwhelming issue of poverty, concentration of people in cities, the pressure on public services and public spaces, and the degradation that accompanies movements of people into cities. 2017-02-24T18:05:50Z 2017-02-24T18:05:50Z 1999-05-03 Speech http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/11/25256285/keynote-address-james-d-wolfensohn-president-world-bank-symposium-preserving-architecture-historic-cities-sacred-places http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26169 English en_US World Bank, Washington, D.C., May 3, 1999; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Speech Africa Latin America & Caribbean Central African Republic Guatemala |
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SACRED SITES READING ARCHITECTS SLUMS ARTS CULTURES THOUGHT PICTURES ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE CREATIVITY CRAFTS CULTURAL PROPERTY TRANSPARENCY RELIGIOUS PLACES IDENTITY TIME SCHOOLS POVERTY EXPERIENCE RESTORATION MOSQUES BUILDING CHURCHES ART CULTURAL CONTINUITY TOURISM SOCIAL STRUCTURES LEARNING CULTURAL HISTORY HISTORY MONUMENTS NATIONAL PARK CITIES CIVILIZATION PERFORMING ARTS HISTORIES INFRASTRUCTURE PRESERVATION CULTURE HISTORIC CITIES MEGACITIES GOVERNANCE HISTORIC PLACES Wolfensohn, James D. Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places |
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James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the importance of preserving culture, cities and architecture, and sacred sites. The international system has to be built on structure, on governance, on justice, on legal systems, on social systems, but it also has to be built on history and culture. You do not have to have a dollar sign on something for it to be valuable or for it to be essential. You cannot have an international financial architecture built on sand. He discussed the overwhelming issue of poverty, concentration of people in cities, the pressure on public services and public spaces, and the degradation that accompanies movements of people into cities. |
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Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places |
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Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places |
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Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places |
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Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places |
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Keynote Address on Preserving the Architecture of Historic Cities and Sacred Places |
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keynote address on preserving the architecture of historic cities and sacred places |
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