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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface: A new approach to urban conservation vii
Acknowledgements xxi
Abbreviations and Acronyms xxiii
1. Urban Conservation: Short History of a Modern Idea 1
The Origins of Urban Conservation: Between Engineering and Romanticism 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 Policy 37
Urban Conservation Policies after the Second World War 37
Urban Conservation in International Charters and Standard-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 Management 75
Introducing External and Internal Forces of Change 75
Exponential Increase in Urbanisation on a Global Scale 76
Environmental Concerns and the Sustainability of Urban Development 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 Heritage Management 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 Urban Environment 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 Heritage in 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 Change 188
Epilogue 191
Annex 1. Note on the Development of the Historic Urban Landscape Approach 195
Annex 2. The 2005 Vienna Memorandum 203
Annex 3. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape 209
Bibliography 217
Index 229
