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The Urban Heritage Atlas is an atlas and an archive that documents
and explains, visually, narratively, and with analytical maps, the
diversity and uniqueness of the world’s historic cities and
settlements. As such, it serves as a repository of city-building
practices and new developments over time, as well as across the
diverse regions of the world. This also includes vernacular
architecture and traditional building techniques. While many
collections and publications on World Heritage cities have been
produced through the years, the diverse attributes and dimensions
of World Heritage properties in urban contexts, and urban heritage
in general, remain inadequately understood and threatened by a
rapidly urbanising world. Urban heritage is often imagined as a
collection of monuments and managed in an isolated way
disconnected from holistic urban dynamics. This resource aims to fill
this gap.
The Urban Heritage Atlas is technical aid for the implementation of
the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban
Landscape (HUL Recommendation), an instrument that provides a
framework and approach for integrating heritage conservation with
urban development plans and processes. As it makes the different
layers of heritage visible, it supports better management of the
historic urban area, ensuring that new projects and interventions are
compatible with its heritage values. The HUL Approach is a way of
understanding urban heritage as part of a landscape or system
composed of different elements and layers. It is not a category of
cultural landscape nor a type of site. The Urban Heritage Atlas will
be supported by the Managing Urban Heritage (currently under
preparation), a resource manual, and a guide for the
implementation of the HUL Recommendation.
The Urban Heritage Atlas is also a cultural mapping platform that
supports the identification and documentation of the specific
attributes of historic cities and settlements that have a unique
heritage value and should be conserved. For local (and national)
authorities, this platform helps recognise what should be protected
in a historic city or settlement and thus helps with better
management of historic urban areas. It supports mapping the Urban
Heritage Characteristics that express the Outstanding Universal
Value (OUV) of the World Heritage property at different scales.
Cultural mapping is a methodology that makes visible the spatial
relationships and built forms, cultural resources and practices, and
national features that make historic cities and settlements distinctive
and meaningful. It supports those cities and settlements that are a
part of or have properties inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage
List as well as all others not yet inscribed on the World Heritage List,
including those on the national Tentative Lists (sites that may be
eventually considered for nomination to the World Heritage List).
Finally, the Urban Heritage Atlas advances the understanding and
awareness of urban heritage as well as educates and builds
capacities. It invites and enables the participation of all stakeholders
to enable informed decision-making around conservation as well as
new interventions and projects toward better management of urban
heritage.
ASARESTAN as a non-governmental institution is a consultant and executer of research, documentation, conservation, regeneration, presentation and education projects related to various aspects of heritage treasures in the Middle East and Central Asia region. This group also presents and plans investment opportunities in cultural economies based on various types of heritage treasures and tourism
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