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The original concept of sustainable development refers to this future while meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This notion used to be broken out into three constituent parts: environmental, economic and sociopolitical sustainability. But it has been suggested that a more consistent analytical breakdown is to distinguish four domains —economic, ecological, political and cultural sustainability. Today it is fully acknowledged that a paradigm that aims to transform the world must provide operational tools to improve freedoms and welfare.

A three-pillar paradigm fails because it lacks a soul, the values, practices and expressions providing coherence and meaning to development in cities, nations and in our existence as human beings: culture. The outcome document of the UN’s Rio+20 Conference recognizes that people are at the center of sustainable development and that there is a need for “holistic and integrated approaches to sustainable development”, and then focuses on human development, which helps to pave the way for the recognition of culture as an important factor in creating appropriate, and therefore effective,