The Role of Cultural Heritage in Promoting Urban Sustainability: A Brief Review

Sanober Naheed and Salman Shooshtarian ()
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Sanober Naheed: Department of Geography, Adi Keih College of Arts and Social Sciences, Adi Keih, Eritrea
Salman Shooshtarian: School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne 3000, Australia

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-17

Abstract: Cities are hubs of social and cultural activity, and culture is key to what makes cities creative, and sustainable. The Post-2015 Development Agenda has prioritized culture and how it may help people and communities create the future they desire. The study aims to determine the link between cultural heritage and urban sustainability and how multidisciplinary education can help organize urban issues. The article is of relevance to the emerging multicultural urban society with wide socio-economic disparities straining the global urban resilience and posing a challenge for future policy implementation. A systematic literature review was conducted using the Dimension database, and the results were analyzed using VOS viewer. The study also employed the PRISMA quantitative approach for selection criteria. This paper has identified understudied themes including community heritage, sustainable urban governance, and behavioral and multidisciplinary approaches. It is strongly felt that undertaking this study will not only add to the literature in cultural heritage study but also help further multidisciplinary and knowledge-based inquiry, which is currently evolving in the academic domain. Therefore, urban academics have a duty to resolve the issue confronting global urban sustainability and cultural disputes. Future research is required to simplify the current complex issue to make it more relevant and inclusive.

Keywords: urban sustainability; cultural heritage; multicultural; community cohesion; knowledge-based urban development; multidisciplinary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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