Several Latin American cities today make up the Creative Cities Network of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). The network, created in 2004, seeks to encourage international cooperation between the member cities to make creativity an engine of sustainable urban development, social integration and cultural life.
Several Latin American cities today make up the Creative Cities Network of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). The network, created in 2004, seeks to encourage international cooperation between the member cities to make creativity an engine of sustainable urban development, social integration and cultural life.
In the food category Belém, Brazil; and Ensenada, Mexico were designated. The Ecuadorian city of Duran entered in the section of crafts and folk arts.
Kingston, Jamaica; Medellin in Colombia; and Salvador, the South American giant were selected for music.
Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, joined the list in the category of literature; the Mexican city of Puebla in design; and Santos in Brazil, for cinema.
At the end, 47 cities from 33 countries were selected so that the network has 116 cities around the world.
This project represents an enormous potential to emphasize the value of culture as an accelerator of sustainable development. I greet the new cities of many countries, which come to enrich the network with their diversity, said the director general of Unesco, Irina Bokova.
She also recalled that 2015 also marks the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
Source: PL