Negotiating urban heritage in Yangon/Myanmar in the transformation period

城市遗产及其在发展中国家和转型国家（特大）城市中的作用正成为研究的重点：移民、增长、基础设施发展和转型和全球化进程带来的日益增长的“外部”影响——以及缅甸在经历了60多年的自我和外部孤立之后的开放局面——与生活传统和非凡的城市遗产潜力相符合。仰光历史中心区研究的目的是调查在当前的城市发展中，哪些因素和行为体影响着城市遗产的感知、概念和整合。关键问题是：哪些政治、社会和经济因素和行为者以何种方式影响国家、区域和地方层面，并改变对城市遗产的看法？这些影响如何改变城市发展的优先顺序？哪些行为者的哪些措施导致了城市遗产保护的重新优先次序？这些是如何以及通过哪些机构来实施的？

Urban heritage and its role in the (mega)cities of developing and transformation countries are coming into the focus of research: migration, growth, infrastructural development and growing "external" influences through transformation and globalisation processes - as well as in the case of Myanmar the situation of opening after more than 60 years of self- and external isolation - meet with living traditions and remarkable urban heritage potential. Aim of the research of the historic downtown of Yangon is the investigation which factors and actors are influencing the perception, concepts and integration of urban heritage within the current urban development. Key questions are: Which political, societal and economic factors and actors influence on national, regional and local level in which way and change the perception of urban heritage? How do these influences change the priorities of urban development? Which measures of which actors lead to a re-priorisation in respect of a protection of urban heritage? How and through which institutions are these implemented?