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Reconnecting the City

The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage
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Reconnecting the City explores the Historic Urban Landscape approach to urban heritage management, a concept promoted by UNESCO and widely debated in the preservation community. It offers clear insights into what this approach entails and its potential impact on urban conservation. The book includes examples from diverse urban heritage sites worldwide, from Timbuktu to Liverpool, and is richly illustrated with colour photographs. It addresses key issues and best practices for managing and conserving historic urban environments.
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Ideal for professionals and students in architecture, urban planning, conservation, engineering, and policy making, as well as anyone interested in the preservation and management of historic urban areas.

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Historic Urban Landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management, promoted by UNESCO, and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community. However, few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails, and more importantly, what it can achieve.

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Reconnecting the City explores the concept of Historic Urban Landscape, a new approach to urban heritage management promoted by UNESCO. This concept is currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community. However, few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails and, more importantly, what it can achieve.

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  • Examples drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide – from Timbuktu to Liverpool
  • Richly illustrated content with colour photographs
  • Discussions on key issues and best practices for urban conservation

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Blog Business World praises the book as a comprehensive and landmark resource, highly recommended for architects, urban planners, engineers, policy makers, and urban conservation societies. The review emphasises its thoughtful and practical approach to urban conservation in the twenty-first century.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118383988

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 December 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Francesco Bandarin
  • Edited by Ron van Oers

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 821g

Pages: 384

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About the Author

Francesco Bandarin was UNESCO s AssistantDirector-General for Culture from 2010 to 2014 and is now Professorof Urban Planning at the University Institute of Architecture ofVenice. He was formerly Director of the UNESCO World HeritageCentre and the Secretary of the World Heritage Committee. He istrained 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 UNESCOrecommendations 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 Institute ofTraining 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).

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