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.
Francesco Bandarin
Art & Applied Arts Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen Bautenschutz Bautenschutz u. Bausanierung Civil Engineering & Construction Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst Museen u. Kulturerbe Museum & Heritage Studies Preservation & Renovation of Structures
"But for the time being, we can dispassionately recommendthat this book becomes the manual not only of professionalplanners, conservation officers and managers of heritage sitesworldwide, but also of academics and students, of landscapedesigners, architects and engineers and of everyone involved inurban conservation and management, because there is no targetaudience for a book that is at the same time militant andhistorical." (Planning Perspectives, 11 March2013)
"This is an important book, destined one hopes to beessential reading for those involved in urban conservationglobally: scholars, practitioners, managers, students." (Landscape Research Journal, 2012)
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