Urban fabric
Historic center WHS which mention "urban fabric" (or "tissu urbain" in French) in their OUV statement.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahmadabad | ||
| Aleppo | ||
| Ancient Ksour | "Their urban fabric is dense and closely-packed; with narrow and twisting lanes running between the blank outer walls of courtyard houses." (OUV) | |
| Belfries | "As major and central elements of the medieval town, the belfries have conserved their importance and played a pivotal role in the development of the urban fabric right up to present times." (Official description) | |
| Brugge | ||
| Bukhara | ||
| Dilmun Burial Mounds | "(...) 15 site components consist of 13 single royal mounds and two pairs of royal mounds, all embedded in the urban fabric of A'ali village." (OUV) | |
| Ferrara | "The originality of the urban fabric of Ferrara, along with its Renaissance design and layout elements, makes it a clearly recognisable Renaissance city." (Official description) | |
| Kulangsu | ||
| Kutna Hora | ||
| Lyon | ||
| Medina of Fez | ||
| Olinda | "a tree-covered landscape laid over an urban fabric delightfully moulded to the contours of the topography" | |
| Pearling | ||
| Ping Yao | ||
| Riga | "The urban fabric of its medieval centre " | |
| Sheki | "Besides the manor houses, Sheki's public buildings encompass religious structures, identified in the urban fabric by the vertical lines of the mosque minarets, public baths and caravanserais." - AB Evaluation | |
| Siena | "The city is a masterwork of dedication and inventiveness in which the buildings have been designed to fit into the overall planned urban fabric and also to form a whole with the surrounding cultural landscape." (Official description) | |
| Stone Town of Zanzibar | ||
| Strasbourg | ||
| Tlacotalpan | Tlacotalpan is a Spanish colonial river port on the Gulf coast of Mexico which has preserved its original urban fabric to an exceptional degree (OUV) | |
| Valparaiso |
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