Leveraging Natural & Cultural Heritage to Improve Urban Livability and Resilience: SDG Target 11.4 and Beyond

“Cultural Heritage and Sustainability, Tackling Climate Change by Preserving our Cultural Heritage” by Ms. Rosa Milito, Specialist Conservation Architect (UK), ICOMOS Canada Board Member. “Traditional Cities are Templates for Urbanization” by Jeff Soule, FAICP, ICOMOS Focal Point for the World Urban Campaign; American Planning Association. “GO-HUL: A Global Observatory on the Historic Urban Landscapes” by Dr. Ana Pereira Roders, Eindhoven University of Technology. “Leveraging the Heritage Values of Belize City’s Yarborough Community for Economic Opportunity and Climate Resilience” by Justin Garrett Moore, New York City Public Design Commission; American Planning Association. “Proposing an International Landscape Convention” by Professor Kathryn Moore, President, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). “Natural and cultural heritages as central assets for territorial planning” by Eric Huybrechts, Chargé de Mission Actions Internationales, Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme d'Île-de-France, Paris, France; ICOMOS France. “Resiliencia, Ciudad y Patrimonio: El Centro Histórico de Quito y las Áreas Históricas del Distrito Metropolitano (DMQ)” by Arq. Angélica Arias, Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio, Municipio de Quito, Ecuador. “The SDG Heritage Target: Where it’s Coming From and Where it’s Going” by Andrew Potts, ICOMOS Focal Point for the UN SDG Process, ICOMOS. “Large Urban Parks, Key Public Infrastructure for Resilient, Inclusive, Safe and Sustainable cities” by Patricia M. O'Donnell, FASLA, AICP, IFLA, World Urban Parks.
Introduction: “Heritage & Agenda 2030: Sendai, Paris, Quito and the SDGs” by Andrew Potts, ICOMOS Focal Point for the UN SDG Process, ICOMOS. (USA)
Panel 1: The Role of Cultural Heritage in Agenda 2030 (20 minutes)
“Traditional Cities are Templates for Urbanization” by Jeff Soule, FAICP; ICOMOS Focal Point for the World Urban Campaign; American Planning Association. (USA)
“Proposing an International Landscape Convention” by Professor Kathryn Moore, President, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). (UK) 
Panel 2:  Tools and Metrics (20 minutes)
“GO-HUL: A Global Observatory on the Historic Urban Landscapes” by Dr. Ana Pereira Roders, Eindhoven University of Technology; ICOMOS Portugal. (Netherlands) 
“Global urban factors and their impact on the conservation of World Heritage Cities: An indicators-based analysis” by P.C. Guzmán, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology; ICOMOS Mexicano. (Mexico)
Panel 3: From Global to Neighborhoods:  Localizing SDG Target 11.4 (40 minutes)
“Preventive conservation of built heritage as a stimulus for social cohesion: the cases of a intermediate city and a small town in Ecuador" by Professors Fausto Cardoso Martínez and Verónica Heras Barros, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad de Cuenca. (Ecuador)
“Intermediary Cities: Culture as the driving force for sustainability - The example of Chefchaouen, Good practices” by Firdaous Oussidhoum, UCLG’s I-Cities Working Group coordinator, member of the UNESCO Chair of Intermediary Cities  (Morocco)
“Participatory heritage management for sustainable development and tourism in Turkey: some issues and case studies” by Dr. A. Ege Yildirim, Heritage Planner, ICOMOS Turkey. (Turkey)
“Leveraging the Heritage Values of Belize City’s Yarborough Community for Economic Opportunity and Climate Resilience” by Justin Garrett Moore, New York City Public Design Commission; American Planning Association. (USA/Belize)
Panel 4: Recognizing the Inter-linkages of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Urban Sustainability (30 minutes).  Moderator: Arturo Mora, Senior Programme Officer, South America Regional Office, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
“Cultural and natural heritages as key assets for territorial developments” by Eric Huybrechts, Director of International affairs at the Paris Regional and Metropolitan Planning Agency, ICOMOS France, World Urban Campaign (lead partner), Isocarp (France representative), SFU, AdP-Villes en développement (administrator). (France)
“Cultural Heritage and Sustainability, Tackling Climate Change by Preserving our Cultural Heritage” by Rosa Milito, RIBA SCA Architect, M Arch., Specialista in Restauro Dei Monumenti (Doctoral Degree), CAHP, ICOMOS Canada Board Member. (Canada)
“Urban Parks and Public Spaces, Key Public Infrastructure for Resilient, Inclusive, Safe and Sustainable Cities” by Patricia M. O'Donnell, FASLA, AICP, IFLA, World Urban Parks; ICOMOS-IFLA ISC Cultural Landscapes, CIVVIH, ICOMOS ICTC, and author of “Benefits of public spaces to economy, environment, society and local cultures”, lead paper for UNESCO Culture global report for Habitat 3. 
Conclusion (5 minutes)