Yangon Steps In to Preserve Gandhi Memorial Building

Yangon Steps In to Preserve Gandhi Memorial Building
World Monuments Fund - Asia Society
Once one of the world’s greatest trading cities and known as “The Garden City of the East,” Yangon offers a rich cultural landscape and the largest collection of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century colonial architecture in Southeast Asia. Following Myanmar’s emergence from isolation, a rush of development now threatens the country’s former capital city. Thant Myint-U will discuss the progress made to preserve one of the most spectacular early twentieth-century urban landscapes in Asia, and the challenges to come.Yangon Historic City Center is on the 2014 World Monuments Watch. To learn more, visit wmf.org/watch.The Paul Mellon Lecture series is supported by The Paul Mellon Education Fund and the Paul Mellon Fund for Architectural Preservation in Great Britain.