Abstract

Luang Prabang had been a former capital city of Lao P.D.R and it has been as a center of Laos tradition cultural. There are a large number of ancient Laotian architectures, European colonial architecture, natural landscape from long time ago has remained in Luang Prabang and it has shown the peculiarity of the tradition culture of Laos. And so it was listed in the world heritage site in 1995. In order to protect Luang Prabang as a world heritage site, the government of Laos with the assistance of UNESCO had dawn up the master plan "The Plan de Sauveguarde et de Mise en Valeur"(PSMV) by using as a base regulation for protecting heritage. In April of 2001, PSMV was carried out and it has been enforced as a formal law in preservation area. However, by investigation of the local office of UNESCO concern about actual situation of conservation and a report at the general meeting of UNESCO in 2002 are also report that: the rule is not fully yet to protect in actual situation. Therefore, the aim of this paper obtains the key of effective preservation at understanding the actual situation and the problem of PSMV of the historical heritage preservation area in Luang Prabang. Result as follows. 1) Most of illegal building has non-permission, in this case there are many of them had violation on the material of wall, building form, in the case of having permission there is little violation of building form, but there are many violation on the material of roofs. 2) Most of buildings are belong to personal possession and have been constructed by themselves. Moreover, they did not know that construction be violating to PSMV.

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