Martin Skalsky, from the Arnika civic association, said, however, that care of Prague heritage has a number of shortcomings. The committee decision will be delivered to the Czech Republic by official channels by September at the latest. Novak said the committee also made a recommendation for further care of Prague's city core, based on a UNESCO monitoring mission early this year. He said the committee also praised the report that the Prague City Hall and the Culture Ministry worked out as exceptional and recommended to the World Heritage Centre that it be posted on its web pages as an example to be followed. The Prague City Hall sent to the UNESCO committee three reports, including UNESCO: Dresden's Bridge Project Must Stop ...
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Farming practices 'must change' ... one on the methodology of assessing the possible construction of skyscrapers in Prague. The UNESCO report is a surprising change of opinion after the signals the committee was sending out in the past. Last year, for instance, it expressed "serious concern" about the planned construction of further skyscrapers at Prague-Pankrac. Shortly afterwards, however, the Culture Ministry completed administrative proceedings related to the skyscrapers and upheld the city Hall's decision to give the green light to the construction. Pankrac is situated in the heritage reserve protective zone.
Critics of the planned construction at Pankrac were then warning that Prague might be deleted from the UNESCO list of world culture heritage.
(Ceske Noviny)
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