We are delighted to inform you that the 3^rd meeting of the Mayors’ Panel, held virtually on April 30, brought together no fewer than 10 mayors from World Heritage cities participating in the Québec Roadmap: Angra do Heroismo (Portugal), Bordeaux (France), Brussels (Belgium), Cidade Velha (Cape Verde), Cordoba (Spain), Cuenca (Ecuador), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Évora (Portugal), Québec (Canada) and Puebla (Mexico).

The meeting marked another important political milestone:

Referring to the Manifesto, and in light of the current results of the Quebec Roadmap, the Mayors’ Panel affirms that Habitability integrates all aspects of their political vision, and that it constitutes the main orientation, carrying great potential for urban transformation and revitalization that can materialize the common ambitions of the OWHC cities.

Habitability revolves around the following four Strategic Axes, to which the cities have already associated courses of action:

1. Requalify the Habitat
2. Refresh the City
3. Transform Mobility
4. Regenerate the Urban Environment

The decisions taken at the 3^rd meeting of the Mayors’ Panel set the definitive framework for the Cordoba Symposium on the Habitability of Historic Centers (17^th World Congress of the OWHC, Spain, September 24-27, 2024).

The four Strategic Axes adopted constitute the mayors’ “political mandate” and the starting point for the Symposium. The participants in Cordoba will have the task of proposing how these Axes can be implemented in concrete terms, and how to organize the continuation of the process after Cordoba.

You can already find the Panorama of the Roadmap, illustrating the distribution of priority thematics dealt with within Collaborative Networks, according to the Strategic Axes adopted by the Mayors’ Panel, and converging towards Habitability: