GUIDEBOOK

2011 Recommendation
on the Historic Urban
Landscape
Around the world, national and local
governments, as well as United Nations
agencies, the World Bank and regional
development banks, are searching for a more
sustainable process of urban development
that integrates environmental, social and
cultural concerns into the planning, design
and implementation of urban management
programs. This is where the HUL Approach
and the 2011 Recommendation on the Historic
Urban Landscape come into action.
The recommendation is a ‘soft-law’ to be
implemented by UNESCO’s individual
Member States on a voluntary basis. The
Recommendation does not replace existing
doctrines or conservation approaches; rather,
it is an additional tool providing us with a road
map to integrate policies and practices of
conservation of the built environment into the
wider international goals of urban development,
whilst respecting the values of different cultural
contexts (UNESCO, 2011).
Development of the HUL Concept
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