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Cuenca Walking Tour
Starting from downtown Cuenca’s downtown, you will enjoy the most beautiful Ecuadorian city visiting the famous Rouses market, the Cuenca’s New Cathedral, Calderon Park (Central Park), the San Sebastian Plaza which is locally famous for a very interesting colonial architecture and the City Modern Art Museum. If time allows you can also enjoy a very special walk to the neighborhood of la Merced where you will find houses from the Colonial and Republican period. More…
Cuenca City Tour by Bus
Join us on a 2-2-1/2 bus tour as we visit the river side known as El Barranco. Located throughout the river Tomebamba, between the bridge of Vergel and The Ford, in their ends, and among the Calle Large, El Barranco is one of the cultural most beautiful attractions in Cuenca. This tour will enable you to see Cuenca’s colonial town on one side and the new residential homes on the other. More…
Katya Gonzalez Ripoll, Director of Heritage and Vice Minister of Culture for Colombia, Colombia
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Katya Gonzalez Ripoll has 25 years of experience of innovation in the field of urban development in the private and social sectors. As an architect and urban planner, she has been responsible for more than 500,000 square meters in projects that range from private housing, commercial and public buildings, restoration, conservation, urbanism, urban renovation and social housing. With this vast experience she has worked in the public sector as Director of Heritage and as Vice Minister of Culture in Colombia developing and implementing the program “Vigias de Patrimonio” a volunteer program for the conservation, protection and recuperation of tangible and intangible heritage. More…
Accommodation for the 2010 Sustainability Conference in Cuenca, Ecuador may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
John M. Whiteley, University of California, California, USA 
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Professor Whiteley has been at the University of California since 1972. His most recent co-authored books from the MIT Press are Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia, and Water, Place and Equity.
