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Protecting Cultural Heritage as Development Priority

MediaGlobal, Sunday, August 1, 2010

Related Projects: GINGERBREAD HOUSES

The earthquake that shook Haiti in January 2010 has proven how vulnerable cultural heritage is to natural disasters.

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Peabody Essex Museum the First to Show Off Hidden Chinese Works

Boston Globe, Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Related Projects: JUANQINZHAI IN THE QIANLONG GARDEN

A special international partnership will make the Peabody Essex Museum the first place in the world to display a group of 90 imperial objects from a hidden Chinese palace complex inside Beijing's Forbidden City.

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Ranchers and Drug Barons Threaten Rain Forest

The New York Times, Saturday, July 17, 2010

Deforestation has led to soil erosion at Yaxchilán, a Mayan city across the border in Mexico, which in turn has swollen rivers that erode limestone temples, said Norma Barbacci, regional director for the World Monument Fund. Ash from the squatters’ burns to clear fields for planting cause acid rain that wears at temples.

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Advertencia a Sevilla: o se para el Rascacielos o la Ciudad se Cae de la Élite de Ciudades Patrimoniales

El Mundo, Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Related Projects: HISTORIC LANDSCAPE OF SEVILLA

Despite an outcry from local and international presersvation groups, the Spanish bank CajaSol has broken ground on a 180-meter-high office tower in Sevilla.

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Where U.S. Helped to Rebuild Europe, Past Glories Are Restored

The New York Times, Monday, May 24, 2010

Keywords: France, WMF Europe

Related Projects: HÔTEL DE TALLEYRAND

The United States on Tuesday will unveil the newly restored Hôtel de Talleyrand, the historic Parisian palace on the Place de la Concorde that once served as the headquarters of the Marshall Plan, the postwar American reconstruction plan for Western Europe. The restoration took nine years and cost about $5 million, financed by more than 100 donors from both sides of the Atlantic and absorbing the efforts of about 150 French artisans

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The Forbidden City: Sleeping Beauty

The Economist, Thursday, May 20, 2010

Keywords: China, Forbidden City, Juanqinzhai

Related Projects: JUANQINZHAI IN THE QIANLONG GARDEN

Largely closed to the public for more than 80 years, the garden’s 27 buildings and pavilions, as well as its rockeries and ancient trees, have been described by one senior Forbidden City official as a “jewel”—and with good reason. Restoring them has been the work of a rare partnership between the Palace Museum, which since 1925 has been responsible for the Forbidden City, and a foreign NGO, the New York-based World Monuments Fund.

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Babylon Ruins Torn Between Preservation and Profit

Associated Press, Friday, May 7, 2010

Keywords: Babylon, Iraq, Watch

Related Projects: THE FUTURE OF BABYLON

A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving the site or making money off it.

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