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#Listen2Cities #LocalizingSDGs

✨#Culture is a key dimension of #SustainableDevelopment

In this thread, we will show how #cities’ #GoodPractices have significantly contributed to achieving #SDGs as referred in our OBS 🔗obs.agenda21culture.net/en/home-grid and Guide agenda21culture.net/sites/default/…

✨#SDG11 aims at promoting the #sustainable #development of #cities

👉#SDG11 is the Goal that addresses #culture more directly, with Target 11.4 aiming at strengthening efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s #cultural and natural #heritage

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👉In #BeitSahour the revitalization of the historic Old City and its related #heritage has contributed to local #identity and #sustainable tourism

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👉.@MunicipioCuenca (@CulturaCUE) is an example of effective policies for the protection and promotion of #tangible and #intangible cultural #heritage in line with #sustdev

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👉#Seongbuk has activated a #sustainable cultural ecosystem and preserved its #historic and #cultural resources like cultural #heritage

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👉Another prominent example is the #cultural policy of @villedelyon, aimed at making a #SustainableCity with a culturally cooperative #community

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👉Buenos Aires (@datacultura) has identified new forms of #heritage and linked them with other areas of #sustainable #urban #development

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👉#Surakarta has sought to integrate #culture in all aspects of public life, increasing the preservation of cultural expressions, #performers and #craftspeople

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👉The Urban Art Gallery of @CamaraLisboa shows how #cities can make public spaces a place for cultural #expression and #participation

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👉The @CityofCT has connected cultural aspects with other areas of policy as #economic development, #coexistence between communities and #UrbanPlanning

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👉The project of #Novosibirsk “turning the city into museum” aims to infuse #culture into the #urban environment and to promote local #historical #heritage

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Some recommendations for #LocalGov: allocate appropriate human, technical & financial resources to cultural policies, keep an updated inventory of local natural & cultural #heritage, and promote the role of culture in the renovation of historic centres

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✨#Cities and #LocalGovernments have to acknowledge the vital role that culture plays in #sustainable #local #development, through appropriate capacity-building, policy design, implementation and evaluation, etc

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