Million Dollar View
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Million Dollar View
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
All urban communities, whether they have developed gradually over time or have been
created deliberately, are an expression of the diversity of societies throughout history.
This charter concerns historic urban areas, large and small, including cities, towns and
historic centres or quarters, together with their natural and man-made environments.
Beyond their role as historical documents, these areas embody the values of traditional
urban cultures. Today many such areas are being threatened, physically degraded,
damaged or even destroyed, by the impact of the urban development that follows
industrialisation in societies everywhere.
Faced with this dramatic situation, which often leads to irreversible cultural, social and even
economic losses, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) deems it
necessary to draw up an international charter for historic towns and urban areas that will
complement the "International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments
and Sites," usually referred to as "The Venice Charter." This new text defines the principles,
objectives, and methods necessary for the conservation of historic towns and urban areas.
It also seeks to promote the harmony of both private and community life in these areas and
to encourage the preservation of those cultural properties, however modest in scale, that
constitute the memory of mankind.
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June 6th, 2014
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