Crisis disrupt people lives. Either if they are caused by disasters due to natural hazards, conflict situations, or diseases outbreaks, crisis affect livelihoods, economies, and social and personal welfare. The role of culture and cultural heritage to deal with these situations has been often underestimated. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is showing the importance of relying and using culture to help people handling difficult experiences. Likewise, culture is being progressively integrated into post-crisis recovery process, as reflected in the Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery (CURE) Framework developed by UNESCO and the World Bank, under the common understanding that culture is the foundation on which cities are built. This paper will present some key aspects from this approach to integrate culture both as an asset and as a tool, in urban recovery processes, including some challenges such as the application of the build back better principle to cultural heritage contexts, as well as some reflections on their use during ongoing crisis.

危机破坏了人们的生活。无论是由于自然灾害，冲突局势或疾病暴发造成的灾难，危机都会影响生计，经济以及社会和个人福利。人们常常低估了文化和文化遗产在处理这些情况方面的作用。但是，COVID-19大流行显示出依靠和利用文化来帮助人们处理困难经历的重要性。同样，在教科文组织和世界银行共同制定的文化是城市建设基础的共同认识下，文化正在逐步融入危机后的恢复进程，这反映在联合国教科文组织和世界银行制定的《城市重建与恢复文化》框架中。 。本文将介绍这种方法的一些关键方面，以将文化既作为一种资产又作为一种工具进行整合，