Reconnecting the City (eBook)

The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage

Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-38397-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

Following the publication of The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century, the approach
is now further elaborated with a more practical slant and translates the notion
into an operational set of management practices. In this follow-up book, the
editors pull together specially commissioned chapters on best practice in urban
heritage management from established professionals in the field. Drawn from a
variety of disciplines related to urban management and conservation these
authors present and discuss methodologies and practices to consider in the
implementation of the Historic Urban Landscape approach as advocated by UNESCO. 

The contributors are selected from professionals who have written, argued or debated about the role of historic
cities in contemporary society. As well as their chapters, there are interviews
with six high-profile people from different regions of the world giving their
critical reflections on the UNESCO approach in relation to their own ideas on
urban heritage conservation and city management. 

Reconnecting the City: the Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban
Heritage provides a thorough discussion, structured  by themes on issues related to key topics in the field of urban management, from changing demographics and increasing urbanisation to the pressures of economic
development and decentralisation; social interaction; and economic feasibility and financing of heritage conservation.

By presenting a range of methodologies and tools to support urban conservation in a way that is sensitive to cultural differences, the editors encourage a departure from the compartmentalized approaches of today’s urban heritagemanagement. 

The book includes contributions from HH The Aga Khan, Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Bianca and Julian Smith – and many other internationally respected figures. 
The book’s companion website offers invaluable resources from UNESCO relating to the Historic Urban Landscape
Approach, as well as additional illustrations and web-links.

Francesco Bandarin is UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Culture and Professor of Urban Planning at the University Institute of Architecture of Venice. He was formerly 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 recommendations 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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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. Examples drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool Richly illustrated with colour photographs Addresses key issues and best practice for urban conservation

Autor

Francesco Bandarin was UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture from 2010 to 2014 and is now Professor of Urban Planning at the University Institute of Architecture of Venice. He was formerly 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 recommendations 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).

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Preface
Francesco Bandarin and Ron van Oers

Introduction. Urban Conservation and the End of Planning
Francesco Bandarin

SECTION 1. The Layered Dimensions of Urban Conservation

Chapter 1. Archaeology: Reading the City through Time
Tim Williams

Chapter 2. How Geology Shapes the Urban Environment
Claudio Margottini and Daniele Spizzichino

Chapter 3. Morphology as the Study of City Form and Layering
Stefano Bianca

Interview. Searching for a Chinese Approach to Urban Conservation
Wang Shu

Case study. Bologna: From Urban Restoration to Urban Rehabilitation
Patrizia Gabellini

Chapter 4. Historic Cities and Climate Change
Anthony Gad Bigio

Interview. Looking at the Challenges of the Urban Century
Filipe Duarte Santos

Chapter 5. The Intangible Dimension of Urban Heritage
Rohit Jigyasu

Interview. Interpreting Cultural Landscapes as Expressions of Local Identity
Lisa Prosper

Case study. The Traditional Chinese View of Nature and Challenges of Urban Development
Feng Han

Chapter 6. Planning and Managing Historic Urban Landscapes
Francesco Siravo

Interview. The Challenge of Urban Transformation
Mohsen Mostafavi

Chapter 7. Cities as Cultural Landscapes
Ken Taylor

SECTION 2. Building the Toolkit

Chapter 8. Evolution of the Normative Framework
Jukka Jokilehto

Chapter 9. Civic Engagement Tools for Urban Conservation
Julian Smith

Interview. Listening to the People, Promoting Quality of Life
His Highness the Aga Khan

Case study. Valuing Cultural Diversity
Richard Engelhardt

Chapter 10. Knowledge and Planning Tools
Jyoti Hosagrahar

Case study. Reading the City of Tokyo
Hidenobu Jinnai

Chapter 11. The Role of Regulatory Systems
Patricia O'Donnell

Interview. Constructing Cultural Significance
Rahul Mehrotra

Chapter 12. Devising Financial Tools for Urban Conservation
Donovan Rypkema

Case study. A User's Guide for Heritage Economics
Christian Ost

Case study. The World Bank's Tools for Urban Conservation
MV Serra

Chapter 13. Researching and Mapping the Historic Urban Landscape
Michael Turner and Rachel Singer

Interview. Heritage and the Metropolis
Rem Koolhaas

Conclusion. The Way Forward: An Agenda for Reconnecting the City
Ron van Oers

Contributors

Rezensionen

"I highly recommend the comprehensive and landmark book href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470655747.html">The
Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century
by Francesco Bandarin and Ron Van Oers, to any architects, urban
planners, surveyors, engineers, policy makers, business leaders,
and urban conservation societies who are seeking a complete
overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation.
This book provides a thoughtful and practical approach that will
benefit the urban conservation efforts around the world in the
twenty-first century." (Blog Business World, 29
May 2012)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Schlagworte: Approach • Architecture • Architektur • Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen • Bautenschutz u. Bausanierung • Century • Civil Engineering & Construction • clear • conservation practitioners • debated • Denkmalpflege • entails • Heritage • Historic • historic preservation • international • Issues • Managing • New • notion • operational • Practical • Preservation & Renovation of Structures • preservation community • Publication • slant • Stadtforschung • Stadtplanung • UNESCO • Urban • urban planning • urban studies
• ISBN-10: 1-118-38397-4 / 1118383974
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-38397-1 / 9781118383971