The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century - Softcover

"But for the time being, we can dispassionately recommend that this book becomes the manual not only of professional planners, conservation officers and managers of heritage sites worldwide, but also of academics and students, of landscape designers, architects and engineers and of everyone involved in urban conservation and management, because there is no target audience for a book that is at the same time militant and historical." ("Planning Perspectives", 11 March 2013) "This is an important book, destined one hopes to be essential reading for those involved in urban conservation globally: scholars, practitioners, managers, students." ("Landscape Research Journal", 2012) "This is an important book, destined one hopes to be essential reading for those involved in urban conservation globally: scholars, practitioners, managers, students." ("Landscape Research Journal", 2012)

This 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.