A methodology for the comprehensive identification and protection of the valuable attributes of historic cities and public spaces and the preservation of their authenticity

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to create a methodology for identifying complementary attributes critical to the sustainability and authenticity of historic towns and for designing innovative tools for their protection in land-use planning and care-taking processes at heritage sites. In addition, this methodology can be further used to present the values of historical urbanism. It is based on a relatively comprehensive urban assessment and innovative methods using computer-aided imaging techniques conforming to international standards of urban management with public participation. The specific objective is to formulate and define general standard documentation and tools for assessing urban development in the course of planning and building-development within the framework of heritage-site care and preservation, or more precisely, to assess the degree of heritage value of specified urban/urbanistic phenomena and their attributes. In other words: the specification of urban phenomena and their attributes with heritage potential