ABSTRACT
This chapter projects the concept of cultural landscapes into the realm of historic urban areas in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) paradigm. Its purpose is to provide a broad conceptualization of HULs and their management concerns corresponding with the original intention of HUL as set out in the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape to act as a tool to address management of urban change in historic cities through the lenses of heritage and culture. To do this the chapter takes a historical overview of how, during the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, academic and professional interest in heritage studies started to embrace the cultural landscape construct. Landscape, it was increasingly realized, was a document of social history reflecting the interaction between people, events, places and time. Coincidental was the parallel and increasing understanding of the significance of the intangibility of heritage and the emergence of international heritage related charters and documents increasingly addressing cultural diversity and values. The chapter reflects on how these have relevance to urban heritage and how thinking and practice have been instrumental in the inception and development of the HUL paradigm.
