Abstract
The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) recommendation adopted by UNESCO in 2011 provides a holistic approach based on landscape planning principles. It is in line with the International Guidelines for Urban and Territorial Planning adopted by UN-Habitat in 2015 (UN-Habitat 2015). HUL concerns the integration of culture in territorial planning processes and the historical urban centre inside their urban or city context. Large cities are becoming the dominant pattern of the human settlements worldwide. They are the main engine of economic development, attracting people for jobs, creating the highest values and are the main support for the globalisation process. The 21st century is the era of the metropolis, with a large increase of cities of more than 500,000 inhabitants. The heritage of the 21st century will be building through the metropolis. We can consider the metropolis as an artefact of the humankind. It produces large urban–rural systems supported by large infrastructures, iconic buildings and specific facilities. The upgrading of the main characteristics of the metropolis adds value in cities for the quality of life, creating new heritage at a scale greater than the existing world heritage categories. HUL could be extended as a relevant approach to be applied on the metropolitan scale.
Highlights
Metropolitan areas are accommodating more than 50% of the urban population in the world and this rate increases (United Nations 2018)
The contemporary challenges of human settlement are reshaping the metropolitan areas with the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach providing a holistic methodology for managing territories and cultural/natural heritage
In what way are metropolitan areas representing the main feature of humankind in the 21st century? How will territorial planning re-shape the metropolitan areas? How is the heritage of the metropolitan area evolving? What are the elements and attributes of a metropolitan heritage? And lastly, how can the HUL approach be extended to the metropolitan scale?
Summary
Metropolitan areas are accommodating more than 50% of the urban population in the world and this rate increases (United Nations 2018). The metropolis is both one of the main tools and the effect of the globalisation process It is the spatial organisation of the most productive areas concentrating public and private headquarters, high level of investments for creative industry, cultural facilities and innovation. Seoul transformed a highway to recover a river in the city centre, Boston covered a major artery to provide new amenities and the Paris Regional Master Plan restructured with green corridors and urban green grids These large grids are the heritage backbone of the metropolis. The contemporary challenges of human settlement are reshaping the metropolitan areas with the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach providing a holistic methodology for managing territories and cultural/natural heritage. In what way are metropolitan areas representing the main feature of humankind in the 21st century? How will territorial planning re-shape the metropolitan areas? How is the heritage of the metropolitan area evolving? What are the elements and attributes of a metropolitan heritage? And lastly, how can the HUL approach be extended to the metropolitan scale?
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