Protection and Promotion of the Cultural Heritage
Publisher: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS)
Volume: 24 pages, pdf
Description
Laws are not protecting the cultural heritage – Despite Kosovo’s quite advanced legal and institutional framework on the protection of cultural heritage, the towns and cities Historic Centres are systematically being degraded. The Kosovo’s Progress Report 2013 explicitly concludes that “business interests often prevail over the cultural heritage interests”, alluding to the illegal construction. This degradation is an indicator of institutional failure to protect Historic Centres and assertion of a conclusion that legislation is insufficient to provide for law and order in urban planning and cultural heritage protection in Kosovo.