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

This volumes looks at sustainable protection and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage particularly in view of the current challenges of the 21^st century.

For more than 40 years the protection of the cultural and natural heritage of humankind has been regulated according to the World Heritage Convention, particularly in that heritage shall be protected if it is threatened by modern development.

With this, sustainability and sustainable development are objectives that have also been adopted by the international community to facilitate the protection of...