ABSTRACT
Heritage conservation, an organized effort to protect cultural heritage, is deeply intertwined with modern city planning. They might seem to be almost contradictory, with the one looking to protect and preserve pasts, and the other imagining improved futures and deliberately effecting change. Indeed, modernity celebrates progress and rejects the historical and traditional while glorifying a distant past. But from the Haussmannization of Paris in the middle of the 19th century to current efforts to brand cultural identities, the historic city has been a subtext of many major city-planning endeavors.
