VIRTUAL: Prague Heritages

Abstract

The historical texture of Yazd was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) in 2017, despite being approved all the management plan actions, there have been unsolved problems on the urban scale. This paper aims to analyze the unsuccessful management plan of the historic city of Yazd and to propose some solutions. The most important problems in Yazd are the inadequacy of transportation, the swear system, and the technology, lack of public collaboration and financial support, and the buildings’ functional changes. This study chooses YAZD and BUKHARA as the study areas because of their similarities in terms of historical culture, social, typology, and building materials. Due to the similarities between Yazd and Bukhara, the goal is to minimize the urban problems by making use of the successful experiences of Bukhara which was accepted to the WHL by UNESCO in 1993. Yazd, which has a historical area of 200 hectares made entirely of adobe brick, could not reach the targets set in the management plan due to the lack of local site managers and monitoring systems. To prevent the destruction of historical texture it is essential to protect and rehabilitate the original texture in the scope of the management plan for the sustainability of the cultural heritage values of YAZD. The method of this study is to solve administrative and financial problems of the management plan and to reveal the failing aspects in preserving and rehabilitation on the historical texture of Yazd.