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Historic Urban Landscape : Managing Heritage in an Urban Century.
Title:
Historic Urban Landscape : Managing Heritage in an Urban Century.
Author:
Bandarin, Francesco.
ISBN:
9781119968085
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Contents:
The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing heritage in an urban century -- Contents -- Preface: A new approach to urban conservation -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1: Urban Conservation: Short History of a Modern Idea -- The Origins of Urban Conservation: Between Engineering and Romanticism -- The Historic City as Heritage -- Fracture: the Modern Movement versus the Historic City -- Out of Modernism: New Approaches to Urban Conservation -- 2: Urban Conservation as International Public Policy -- Urban Conservation Policies after the Second World War -- Urban Conservation in International Charters and Standard-Setting Instruments -- Regional Charters -- Rethinking Urban Conservation -- Towards a New Urban Conservation Paradigm -- The Historic Urban Landscape Approach -- 3: The Changing Context of Urban Heritage Management -- Introducing External and Internal Forces of Change -- Exponential Increase in Urbanisation on a Global Scale -- Environmental Concerns and the Sustainability of Urban Development -- The Impact of Climate Change -- The Changing Role of Cities as Drivers of Development -- The Emergence of the Tourism Industry -- Broadening Perceptions and Urban Heritage Values -- The Management of Change -- 4: New Actors and Approaches to Urban Heritage Management -- The Contemporary Context of Urban Heritage Management -- The Emergence of a New Urban Strategy -- Urban Strategies of International Institutions -- 5: Expanding the Toolkit for Management of the Urban Environment -- Urban Heritage Management: Actors and Tools -- Regulatory Systems -- Community Engagement Tools -- Technical Tools -- Financial Tools -- 6: The Historic Urban Landscape: Preserving Heritage in an Urban Century -- The Historic City Meets Globalisation -- The Contemporary Reflection on the City -- Integrating Heritage Conservation and Urban Development.

Historic Urban Landscape: a Tool for the Management of Change -- Epilogue -- Annex 1. Note on the Development of the Historic Urban Landscape Approach -- Annex 2. The 2005 Vienna Memorandum -- Annex 3. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Francesco Bandarin is the Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO, formerly the Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Secretary of the World Heritage Committee. He is trained as an Architect (Venice 1975) and Urban Planner (UC Berkeley 1977) and has pursued an academic career as Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Venice (IUAV) and a professional career as consultant for international organizations in the field of urban conservation and development. He has been actively involved in the Venice Safeguarding Project and in the preparation of Rome for the year 2000 Jubilee. As Director of the World Heritage Centre he has promoted the revision of the UNESCO recommendation on historic cities and has contributed to development of the debate on the role of contemporary architecture in historic cities, on the management of their social and physical changes and on the role of communities in the conservation of historic values. Ron van Oers is Vice Director, World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific (WHITRAP). He was formerly Programme Specialist for Culture at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, coordinating the World Heritage Cities Programme and the international effort to develop new guidelines for urban conservation, which were adopted as the 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape. He is trained as an Urban Planner (Delft 1993) and received his doctorate (PhD, Delft 2000) on a research into the principles of Dutch colonial town planning (published as book). He is the Founding Editor (together with Dr. Ana Pereira-Roders) of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (JCHMSD), published by Emerald Group Publishing (UK) and a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Change Over Time: International Journal of Conservation and the Built

Environment, published by Penn Press, University of Pennsylvania's School of Design (USA)..
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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