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The implementation of the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape for the city of Cuenca (Ecuador) pursues an understanding of the complexity of the city’s heritage. Cuenca was inscribed on the World Heritage List (1999), and there is currently an attempt to condition the urban development of the city for the future. For 2 years, natural, cultural and human resources in Cuenca have been studied, mapped by the universities, and a consensus, through participatory planning and stakeholder consultations, has been built. This process accomplishes the goal of protecting the attributes in which the city values are embedded and at the same time can be related to steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 from the six-step action plan for the HUL implementation, provided by the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation (UNESCO 2011; Veldpaus and Pereira Roders 2013). These steps have led to a vulnerability assessment of the city related to socioeconomic stresses as well as the drafting of different recommendations for action for the ongoing city development in Cuenca. Finally, after the university-driven initiative, the last steps are expected to be implemented and led by the Municipality of Cuenca. The project itself serves as a good practices manual on how to apply the six steps of the recommendation approach. This paper outlines the processes involved in implementing the steps while also reflecting on the wider significance of the case of Cuenca in the Historic Urban Landscape Discourse.
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The vlirCPM research project “World Heritage City Preservation Management” is part of an Inter-University Cooperation Program between the University of Cuenca in Ecuador and the VLIR-IUC Flemish Universities (Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad) in Belgium. The specific counterpart is the RLICC (Raymond Lemaire International Center for Conservation) of the KU Leuven in Belgium.
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The feedback is known as “Return of information” and consists of, once collected the information provided by citizens, this information is crossed with information from other areas or disciplines, to re-discuss this new information generated from all the actors and validate it with them (Tenze 2015).
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It is a way of grouping the phrases to prepare the return, in this case, according to the positions that were collected on each theme of the workshops, placing them along the axes and highlighting those phrases that best represent each positioning (Tenze 2015).
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Rey-Pérez, J., Astudillo Cordero, S., Siguencia Ávila, M.E. (2019). The HUL Approach to Create Heritage Management Tools in the Latin American City of Cuenca-Ecuador. In: Pereira Roders, A., Bandarin, F. (eds) Reshaping Urban Conservation. Creativity, Heritage and the City, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8887-2_11
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