Conservation of the Built Heritage of Colombo Fort

The city of Colombo is characterised by a neglected, deteriorating but potentially magnificent resource - one of the best examples of built heritage in South Asia. With a continuous history of over a thousand years of development around a natural harbour as a nucleus, Colombo boasts of a built heritage shared with three maritime powers in the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. This book provides a record of the history of the development of the history of Colombo Fort under various influences and the living examples of Built Heritage