{"id":111834,"date":"2019-10-31T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1905.az\/?p=111834"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T08:04:39","slug":"unesco-designates-baku-as-creative-city-of-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/unesco-designates-baku-as-creative-city-of-design\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO designates Baku as \u2018Creative City of Design\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><strong>Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, has been designed as a \u2018Creative City of Design\u2019 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baku.jpg 800w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baku-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baku-400x275.jpg 400w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baku-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Thanks to the work done by the Ministry of Culture, theMinistry of Foreign Affairsand the Permanent Delegation of Azerbaijan toUNESCO, Baku has joined the Organization\u2019s Network of Creative Cities, which now number a total of 246 members, AzVision.az reports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of World Cities\u2019 Day, celebrated on 31 October,UNESCOhas listed new 66 urban settlements in the organization\u2019s Network of Creative Cities. The Network brings together cities that base their development on creativity, whether in music, arts and folk crafts, design, cinema, literature, digital arts or gastronomy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UNESCOcreative cities commit to placing culture at the centre of their development strategies and to share their best practices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani city of Sheki was listed as the City of Crafts and Folk Art byUNESCOin 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.azvision.az\/news\/114373\/unesco-designates-baku-as-%E2%80%98creative-city-of-design%E2%80%99.html?fbclid=IwAR3CxiuwrWzMhoRw__O7-gbWTPWMe8UGU6UDz8r728IUJUnm0Hz4RgQT3LM\">Azvision.az<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, has been designed as a \u2018Creative City of Design\u2019 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":111826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actual-news-2"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baku.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}