Abstract
In the context of the inclusion of the Historic Center of Macao in the UNESCO World Heritage List, decided in July 2005, after the transfer of sovereignty to China, this paper proposes to analyze the Macanese experience regarding the heritagization of the city : the beginning of this process under the operational and legal guidance of the Portuguese administration, its appropriation (or translation) by the Special Administrative Region (SAR) in the early 2000s, but also how it subsists and adapts today, almost twenty years after classification, namely in the face of the ever-growing urban development pressure. In the light of new information regarding the evolution and sedimentation of this urban landscape, particularly in the nineteenth century, the purpose is to highlight the heritage value of its mixed identity, hopefully contributing to the dissolution of frontiers and to the restauration of a cohesive city.
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