Title:	International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation
Authors:	Aygen, Zeynep
Keywords:	Conservation Saving the World’s Past
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Simultaneously
Description:	There are many reasons why a volume providing a comparative global framework is valuable and timely. The world is witnessing a fundamental shift in geopolitical power and relations. The twenty-fi rst century is now commonly referred to as the ‘Asian century’, and the rapid modernization of China and India and the growth of their economies are already challenging the economic dominance that the United States has enjoyed for the last hundred years. Japan may have declined in relative terms, but its economy remains one of the global leaders. The so-called Asian Tigers—Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong—continue to prosper, and Vietnam has enjoyed unprecedented growth since the mid-1990s. Brazil has emerged as an economic powerhouse in South America, while Turkey’s economic in- fl uence now spreads across Central Asia, the Middle East and southeastern Europe; and there is rising wealth in parts of Africa, with that continent’s enormous mineral potential starting to be tapped. Meanwhile, the European Union faces fi nancial crisis, the full social and political consequences of which are yet to be seen.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/47501
ISBN:	978-0-203-08356-7
Appears in Collections:	Architecture

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