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Reshaping Urban Conservation

The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action

  • Presents abundant co-created innovations on the integration of heritage management in regional and urban planning and management
  • Provides a multitude of lessons and best practices, defined by practitioners for practitioners in regional and urban planning and management
  • Offers a global perspective on the implementation of the HUL approach in 28 cities worldwide

Part of the book series: Creativity, Heritage and the City (CHC, volume 2)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
  2. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Reshaping Urban Conservation

      • Francesco Bandarin
      Pages 3-20
  3. Case Studies on the Historic Urban Landscape Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. Toward a Special Management and Protection Plan of Urban Heritage in Ambalema, Colombia

      • Sandra Higuera, Andrés Forero, Juliana Forero, Alberto Escovar
      Pages 91-109
    3. Managing Urban Heterogeneity: A Budapest Case Study of Historical Urban Landscape

      • György Alföldi, Melinda Benkő, Gábor Sonkoly
      Pages 149-166
    4. Bukhara: A Living Central Asian Silk Roads City. Application of the Historic Urban Landscape Approach

      • Ona Vileikis, Sanjarbek Allayarov, Christian Ost, Rand Eppich
      Pages 167-186
    5. The HUL Approach to Create Heritage Management Tools in the Latin American City of Cuenca-Ecuador

      • Julia Rey-Pérez, Sebastián Astudillo Cordero, María Eugenia Siguencia Ávila
      Pages 207-222
    6. The Implementation of the Historic Urban Landscape of the Island of Mozambique

      • Solange L. Macamo, Jens Hougaard, Albino Jopela
      Pages 251-276
    7. Urban Heritage Conservation and Management in Jaipur

      • Shikha Jain, Rohit Jigyasu
      Pages 277-296
    8. Case Study: Lamu Old Town

      • Mohammed Ali Mwenje, Salim Mohammed Bunu
      Pages 313-327

About this book

This volume focuses on the implementation of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL approach), designed to foster the integration of heritage management in regional and urban planning and management, and strengthen the role of heritage in sustainable urban development.
Earlier publications and research looked at the underlying theory of why the HUL approach was needed and how this theory was developed and elaborated by UNESCO. A comprehensive analysis was carried out in consultation with a multitude of actors in the twenty-first-century urban scene and with disciplinary approaches that are available to heritage managers and practitioners to implement the HUL approach.
This volume aims to be empirical, describing, analyzing, and comparing 28 cities taken as case studies to implement the HUL approach. From those cases, many lessons can be learned and much guidance shared on best practices concerning what can be done to make the HUL approach work.
Whereas the previous studies served to illustrate issues and challenges, in this volume the studies point to innovations in regional and urban planning and management that can allow cities to avoid major conflicts and to further develop in competitiveness. These accomplishments have been possible by building partnerships, devising financial strategies, and using heritage as a key resource in sustainable urban development, to name but a few effective strategies.
For these reasons, this volume is primarily pragmatic, linked to the daily work and challenges of practitioners and administrators, using specific cases to assess what was and is good about current practices and what can be improved, in accordance with the HUL approach and aims.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Professor in Heritage and Values, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Ana Pereira Roders

  • UNESCO Advisor, Paris, France

    Francesco Bandarin

About the editors

Ana Pereira Roders is full Professor of heritage and values at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands. She is also currently member of the governing board of the International Centre on Space Technology for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Ana has a wide range of work experience abroad and interdisciplinary cooperation, spanning the fields of architecture, urban planning, law, environmental management and computer sciences. Since 2008, Ana cooperates closely with UNESCO and the World Heritage Centre in particular, concerning primarily the 1972 World Heritage Convention and the 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape. She led the creation of global platforms such as Protected Urban Planet (2011) and the Global Observatory on the Historic Urban Landscape (GO-HUL, 2015). Ana is the founding co-editor of the Journal Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, publishedby Emerald. She presented in 2015 at TEDxHamburg “How cities become resource efficient”. Recently, she joined the RegioStars Awards 2018, European Commission, as senior jury member, under the category “Cultural Heritage”. Her recent publications include: Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies (part 2), co-authored with Marie-Theres Albert and Francesco Bandarin, also published by Springer in 2017.

Francesco Bandarin is an architect and urban planner, specialized in urban conservation. He holds degrees in Architecture (Venice, IUAV) and City and Regional Planning, (UC Berkeley). He has been a Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Conservation at the University IUAV of Venice, Italy (1979-2016). From 2000 to 2018, he worked at UNESCO as Director of the World Heritage Centre and as Assistant Director-General for Culture. He is currently an Advisor for Urban Heritage of the UNESCO Director-General. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and of the Board of the Fondazione Santagata for the Economics of Culture in Turin. He has served as a President of several international Juries, including the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale and of the Shenzhen Creative Design Award (SCDA). His recent publications include The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century, 2012, and Reconnecting the City: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage, 2015, both co-authored with Ron van Oers and published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reshaping Urban Conservation

  • Book Subtitle: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action

  • Editors: Ana Pereira Roders, Francesco Bandarin

  • Series Title: Creativity, Heritage and the City

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8887-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8886-5Published: 28 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8887-2Published: 07 February 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2366-4584

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-4592

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXV, 570

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Anthropology

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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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