The Historic Urban Landscape
Managing Heritage in an Urban Century
Published on 12. January 2012
224 pages
978-1-119-96809-2 (ISBN)
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers an invaluable resource for architects, planners, surveyors and engineers worldwide working in heritage conservation, as well as for local authority conservation officers and managers of heritage sites.
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"But for the time being, we can dispassionately recommendthat this book becomes the manual not only of professionalplanners, conservation officers and managers of heritage sitesworldwide, but also of academics and students, of landscapedesigners, architects and engineers and of everyone involved inurban conservation and management, because there is no targetaudience for a book that is at the same time militant andhistorical." (Planning Perspectives, 11 March2013) "This is an important book, destined one hopes to beessential reading for those involved in urban conservationglobally: scholars, practitioners, managers, students." (Landscape Research Journal, 2012)More details
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Francesco Bandarin is the Assistant Director-General forCulture of UNESCO, formerly the Director of the UNESCO WorldHeritage Centre and the Secretary of the World Heritage Committee.He is trained as an Architect (Venice 1975) and Urban Planner (UCBerkeley 1977) and has pursued an academic career as Professor ofUrban Planning at the University of Venice (IUAV) and aprofessional career as consultant for international organizationsin the field of urban conservation and development. He has beenactively involved in the Venice Safeguarding Project and in thepreparation of Rome for the year 2000 Jubilee. As Director of theWorld Heritage Centre he has promoted the revision of the UNESCOrecommendation on historic cities and has contributed todevelopment of the debate on the role of contemporary architecturein historic cities, on the management of their social and physicalchanges and on the role of communities in the conservation ofhistoric values.
Ron van Oers is Vice Director, World Heritage Instituteof Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific (WHITRAP). He wasformerly Programme Specialist for Culture at the UNESCO WorldHeritage Centre, coordinating the World Heritage Cities Programmeand the international effort to develop new guidelines for urbanconservation, which were adopted as the 2011 Recommendation on theHistoric Urban Landscape. He is trained as an Urban Planner (Delft1993) and received his doctorate (PhD, Delft 2000) on a researchinto the principles of Dutch colonial town planning (published asbook). He is the Founding Editor (together with Dr. AnaPereira-Roders) of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Managementand Sustainable Development (JCHMSD), published by EmeraldGroup Publishing (UK) and a Member of the Editorial Advisory Boardof Change Over Time: International Journal ofConservation and the Built Environment, published by PennPress, University of Pennsylvania's School of Design(USA).
Content
Preface: A new approach to urban conservation vii
Acknowledgements xxi
Abbreviations and Acronyms xxiii
1. Urban Conservation: Short History of a Modern Idea1
The Origins of Urban Conservation: Between Engineering andRomanticism 1
The Historic City as Heritage 10
Fracture: the Modern Movement versus the Historic City 15
Out of Modernism: New Approaches to Urban Conservation 23
2. Urban Conservation as International Public Policy37
Urban Conservation Policies after the Second World War 37
Urban Conservation in International Charters andStandard-Setting Instruments 39
Regional Charters 50
Rethinking Urban Conservation 61
Towards a New Urban Conservation Paradigm 65
The Historic Urban Landscape Approach 72
3. The Changing Context of Urban Heritage Management75
Introducing External and Internal Forces of Change 75
Exponential Increase in Urbanisation on a Global Scale 76
Environmental Concerns and the Sustainability of UrbanDevelopment 81
The Impact of Climate Change 89
The Changing Role of Cities as Drivers of Development 93
The Emergence of the Tourism Industry 99
Broadening Perceptions and Urban Heritage Values 105
The Management of Change 108
4. New Actors and Approaches to Urban HeritageManagement 113
The Contemporary Context of Urban Heritage Management 113
The Emergence of a New Urban Strategy 114
Urban Strategies of International Institutions 134
5. Expanding the Toolkit for Management of the UrbanEnvironment 143
Urban Heritage Management: Actors and Tools 143
Regulatory Systems 145
Community Engagement Tools 154
Technical Tools 159
Financial Tools 171
6. The Historic Urban Landscape: Preserving Heritagein an Urban Century 175
The Historic City Meets Globalisation 175
The Contemporary Reflection on the City 182
Integrating Heritage Conservation and Urban Development 186
Historic Urban Landscape: a Tool for the Management of Change188
Epilogue 191
Annex 1. Note on the Development of the Historic UrbanLandscape Approach 195
Annex 2. The 2005 Vienna Memorandum 203
Annex 3. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic UrbanLandscape 209
Bibliography 217
Index 229
