The Impact of Urban Development of Buffer Zone on Universal Heritage

Abstract

World heritage cities and sites have been under increasing pressure over the ages due to population growth and development projects of the cities to which they belong, leading to damage to their outstanding universal value, and may lead not to be inscribed on the list of heritage, or exposed to inscription on the list of threatened sites, The World Heritage List that was included in it. The study includes two main topics, the first: theoretical propositions of the buffer zone, and the related criteria to be effective, to extract the indicators of the theoretical framework, and the second: case study, represented by the Acropolis of Athens.