Treasury of World Culture: Archaeological Sites and Urban Centers

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In 1972 UNESCO created the World Heritage Foundation, a program to identify and protect "world heritage sites" -irreplaceable environments ranging from natural areas to whole urban centers. To date over 600 such sites have been designated for protection on four continents, including places of worship, monuments, living settlements, and historic complexes, which taken together constitute an ideal tour of the history, cultures and creative ...
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In 1972 UNESCO created the World Heritage Foundation, a program to identify and protect "world heritage sites" -irreplaceable environments ranging from natural areas to whole urban centers. To date over 600 such sites have been designated for protection on four continents, including places of worship, monuments, living settlements, and historic complexes, which taken together constitute an ideal tour of the history, cultures and creative expressions of humanity.

That tour begins here, in the first of the three-volume UNESCO World Heritage series: 46 living and archeological built environments from continuously-occupied cities such as Crakow and old Havana to archeological treasures such as Macchu Picchu (Peru) and Angkor Wat (Cambodia); Petra (Jordan); the Imperial Forums (Italy); the Casbah of Algiers; Teotihuacan (Mexico)-and discoveries that make a full spectrum of world cultures.

Each site is presented up close with color reproductions and a rich explanatory text. The volume is completed by the charter map of the World Heritage Foundation and includes UNESCO's standards for designation. With this particularly rich selection of images, places distant in time and space can be seen as connected in a singular and fascinating way: the true heritage of every nation and every individual.
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For more than 30 years, the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has identified and documented sites that represent "the cultural, artistic, and environmental heritage of humanity" in its World Heritage List. Numbering 730, it includes wonders such as Macchu Picchu, the Casbah of Algiers, and Teotihuacan. In this first of three projected volumes, Terraroli (Univ. of Turin) presents 46 of these "archaeological areas, including places of worship, urban settlements, historic and architectural complexes," selected with the goal of showing how the "form of the city" has appeared. (Hundreds of additional sites are listed at the conclusion of the volume.) The main 46, which range widely in space (four continents) and time, are explored through 350 stunning color photographs, brief historical essays, and sidebars on specific topics. UNESCO acknowledges "imbalances" in the World Heritage List that it hopes to correct in time, one being that more than half the sites are European. There is also a difficulty in nomenclature, the term America being used to refer to both North and South America. Nonetheless, readers cannot but acknowledge the nobility of the human spirit that gave rise to this handsome project and sustains it. For all libraries.-Joan W. Garland, Detroit P.L. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9788884913937
  • Publisher: Rizzoli
  • Publication date: 8/28/2003
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 9.74 (w) x 11.34 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Table of Contents

Apostolic Palaces, Vatican Museums, Saint Peter's Square and Basilica 4
Dubrovnik 18
Bamberg 26
Berlin, Die Museumsinsel (The Island of Museums) 32
Stonehenge 38
Athens, Acropolis 42
Ferrara 52
Paestum 60
Pienza 66
Pisa, Campo dei Miracoli (The Field of Miracles) 72
Pompeii 82
Ravenna, the Early Christian Buildings 90
Rome, the Imperial Forums 102
Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 112
Cracow 122
Prague 130
Novgorod 138
Suzdal and Vladimir 144
Cordoba 150
Salamanca 158
Angkor 166
Xi'an 174
Kyoto 178
Petra 184
The Caves of Ajanta 190
Persepolis 194
Baalbek 202
Damascus 208
Palmyra 216
Kandy 224
Hierapolis 228
Bukhara, the Historic Centre 234
San'a 240
Algiers, the Casbah 248
Muslim Cairo 254
Thebes and the Royal Tombs 262
Leptis Magna 268
Marrakesh 274
Brasilia 280
Havana, the Old City 284
Copan 292
Chichen Itza 300
Teotihuacan 308
Cuzco 314
Machu Picchu 322
Nazca 328
World Heritage Sites 335
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 374
Photo credits 382
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