The World Bank
May 2-3, 2011
J Building, B1-080
Washington, DC
The Urbanization Knowledge Platform is a collaborative partnership that aims to become a ‘go to’ hub for knowledge on how to manage our rural-to-urban transition. Over the next two years, the World Bank will roll-out a number of core components, including:
• a rolling series of tightly focused knowledge exchanges between peers, amongst practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and academics—focused on very practical questions of ‘how to’ bring about impact and change;
• an online space for knowledge exchanges—particularly by ‘matching’ urban civil servants through a kind of professional dating service;
• a data platform for city data.
Current core partners include the World Bank, McKinsey Global Institute, Cisco, the Penn Institute for Urban Research, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, USAID, Brookings, the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Cities Alliance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other organizations and individuals. The World Bank will be holding a series of soft-launch events in the next four months in Sao Paolo, London, Barcelona, Washington DC, Istanbul, Seoul, Singapore, Brisbane, Moscow, Johannesburg, and Bogota. Through the Knowledge Platform, the World Bank hopes high-level debates such as this one on Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities can reach a far wider audience and can meanwhile benefit from wider participation.
This Economics of Uniqueness Workshop aimed at helping World Bank staff enhance their understanding of cultural heritage assets and historic cities as public goods. The workshop featured presentations by scholars and researchers who have been active players in the scientific community and have authored papers consistent with the World Bank approach to urban development. The speakers are involved in an ongoing pioneering work on heritage economics that the World Bank is leading, which will result in a groundbreaking publication on this topic. Presentations included theoretical framework, impact on poverty reduction and job creation, impact on real estate values, PPP for historic city regeneration and urban renewal, sustainable tourism, creative industries, brownfield redevelopment, and valuation techniques for estimating the economic rate of return of investment projects. The event was video recorded and webstreamed, encouraging country offices to connect.
Monday, May 2, 2011
JB1-080 | | 9.00 - 9.30 | Registration and light breakfast | | 9.30 - 9.40 | Opening Remarks
Zoubida Allaoua
Director, Finance, Economics, and Urban Development Department, The World Bank | | 9.40 - 9.50 | Nada Al Hassan
Office of the Assistant Director General for Culture, UNESCO | | 9.50 - 10.00 | Gustavo Araoz
President, ICOMOS | | 10.00 - 10.45 | Keynote
Randall Mason
Economic Impacts of Heritage Investment in the US Metropolitan Context   PDFÂ
Chair, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
School of Design, University of Pennsylvania | 10.45 - 11.00 | Coffee Break | | Â | Session 1 - Towards a Comprehensive Theory | | 11.00 - 11.15 | Luigi Fusco Girard
Towards a comprehensive theory  PDF
Chair of the ICOMOSÂ ISCEC Committee | | 11.15 - 11.45 | David Throsby
A Conceptual Framework on Heritage Economics  PDF | | 11.45 - 12.15 | Peter Nijkamp
Economic Valuation Methodology: an Overview  PDF | | 12.15 - 12.45 | Q & A | | 12.45 - 2.00 | Lunch Break | |  | Session 2 - City Regeneration | | 2.00 - 2.30 | Christian Ost
Spatial Economics Applied to Historic Cities  PDF | | 2.30 - 3.00 | Donovan Rypkema
Impact of Conservation Policies on Real Estate Value  PDF | | 3.00 - 3.30 | Francesca Medda
Innovative Financial Mechanisms for Brownfield Redevelopment  PDF | | 3.30 - 4.00 | Christer Gustafsson
Role of Creative Industries for Poverty Reduction  PDF | | 4.00 - 4.30 | Q & A | | 4.30 - 4.45 | Coffee Break | |  | Debate | | 4.45 - 6.00 | Moderated by Luigi Fusco Girard
ISCEC Committee Members |
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