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Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturally diverse living environment. Therefore, various interests, needs, and values affect these dynamics of interaction and urban change, which bring challenges and opportunities for the development of cities. Particularly, when urban development deals with such complex living environment and the management and conservation of both listed and non-listed heritage – as in the case of World Heritage cities – a variety of public and private, and global and local stakeholders are affected by processes of change. Inclusive approaches in the negotiation of these changes that involve all these actors is increasingly advocated for a more sustainable urban development. In the past three decades, the emergence of the so-called living heritage approach promotes the empowerment of those communities, groups, and individuals that keep heritage alive in participating in decision-making over the management of urban developments, and heritage management and conservation that affect them. The preservation of their continuous relationship with their heritage is considered key to fostering the mutual benefit of cities, heritage, and society. While research worldwide offers examples of best practices, the implementation of these approaches still faces many barriers and new challenges. This book aims to explore how (World) Heritage Cities are dealing with the preservation of their living heritage, what is needed for its effective management, what approaches are adopted, and what challenges and opportunities are encountered. Results offer an overview of current practices, which also include some of the first testimonies of their evolution in the time of a global pandemic (COVID-19), that can inform future research and urban strategies.

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Maaike S. De Waal (PhD, Leiden University) is assistant professor and head of the Field Research and Education Centre at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (the Netherlands). She is also a partner in ARGEOgraph, an archaeological company specializing in geoinformatics in archaeology. Previously, she was lecturing in archaeology at the University of the West Indies (Barbados). Her research interests include archaeological heritage management, applied archaeology, landscape archaeology, and Caribbean archaeology and heritage. ‘Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: past, present and future research directions’ (De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K., Sidestone Press, 2019) is one of her recent publications. Ilaria Rosetti was a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp (ARCHES research group) and visiting researcher at TUDelft (HEVA chair). Her research focuses on the role(s) that participation in heritage practices can play in achieving sustainable urban development. Her experience includes projects for public and private institutions, both in the academic and professional sphere, within fields of cultural policy, sustainable tourism, community engagement, and strategies for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As an academic and heritage professional, she is dedicated to supporting planning, monitoring, and assessing participatory heritage practices for achieving the UN 2030 Agenda. She is an active member of the ICOMOS SDGs Working Group. She recently published about Heritage and Sustainability (Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1674; LDE HERITAGE CONFERENCE on Heritage and Sustainable Development Goals PROCEEDINGS; VOLKSKUNDE, 121(2), 105-121). Her 2022 PhD dissertation (University of Antwerp) is entitled ‘Participatory Heritage Practices and Sustainable Urban Development’. Mara De Groot studied Archaeology (VU Amsterdam, 1996-2001; University of Melbourne, 2000). In 2005 she started working for the Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) as an Archaeological Information Specialist. In 2009 Mara got the opportunity to work for the Shared Heritage program of the Nationaal Archief (National Archives) and the RCE, focusing on heritage from Dutch exploration, trade, colonialism, conflict and migration worldwide. Ambitions of the Shared Heritage program are preservation through development, capacity building and improving access to heritage. Since 2014 Mara has been working as Managing Director for the Centre for Global Heritage and Development, a Leiden-Delft-Erasmus initiative. Uditha Jinadasa is a lecturer attached to the Department of Archaeology (Faculty of Arts) in University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Uditha obtained her PhD from Leiden University in 2020 defending the thesis “Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management: A Study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka.” She has a bachelor’s degree in archaeology and a master’s degree in Geo-Informatics, both obtained from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

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