The UN-Habitat meeting was a major UN meeting this year and was attended by hundreds of delegates. The special network meeting on world heritage discussed the question of the sustainability of conservation work and the problems of urban heritage conservation as a social process.

Other matters discussed included the revitilisation of historic cities, the problems of integrating new areas of cities on the periphery to the historic core and the conservation of urban heritage as part of rehabilitation strategies.

Dr Bondin is the Assistant Secretary General of ICOMOS, (International Council on Monuments and Sites), one of three consultant agencies to the Unesco World Heritage Centre. He is also Executive Coordinator of the Rehabilitation Projects Office within the Ministry for Resources & Infrastructure.