ABSTRACT
The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) engaged with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)/International Committee for Sites and Monuments (ICOMOS), initiative to produce criteria to enable the inscription of the under-represented areas of twentieth-century heritage. TICCIH, in consultation with the ICOMOS World Heritage Office, needs to refine the facilitating structures already established into a coherent programme that can be advanced harnessing the considerable resources established by its international networks. The thematic studies are usually arranged in two sections: first an assessment of the criteria that are deemed to be most relevant to the subject area under study, followed by a list of some of the most significant monuments and landscapes of the studied type to which the criteria can be applied. The first section has latterly been considered to be the more relevant by the World Heritage Centre of ICOMOS.
