Launch of Book by Jigna Desai

Equity in Heritage Conservation, the Case of Ahmedabad, India is authored by Jigna Desai, Associate Professor at Faculty of Architecture and Executive Director of the Center for Heritage Conservation (CHC). The book published by Routledge in January 2019 was launched by Amrita Shah, journalist and writer at CEPT University on 27th September 2019. The book takes the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Historic City of Ahmedabad as its foundation investigation into the realities of cultural heritage conservation and management. It decodes the questions rooted in the inscription of World Heritage and its effects on the day to day relationship of people with the city.