Urban Planning Protection and Preservation

Author: (USA) Cohen (Cohen/N.) Edited by Wang Shaohua
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: "This is a very practical guide, providing reference value for all theoretical and practical workers engaged in the complex work of urban conservation and preservation." – Architect/Planner Harry Brand
This book primarily discusses how to carry out the renewal and transformation of cities and urban structures without damaging or losing their intrinsic value, individuality, and historical sense. The author, Nahum Cohen, is an experienced urban planner and architect who has participated in urban conservation projects across various countries, cities, and regions, including Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Capua, Italy, and San Francisco. The methods and case studies presented in this book involve these engineering project examples. The book includes practical strategies adopted in successful historical area conservation planning projects conducted in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. In urban development, the protection methods for historical and cultural cities, as well as the coordination of new and old urban spatial textures and scales, are very important. Urban planning and conservation has always been a significant field of research in urban planning, with the research not only encompassing the protection of urban morphological patterns in historical and cultural cities but also including the preservation of architecture, history, geography, culture, and customs. This book proposes general principles for the protection and preservation of urban planning: determining the objects of urban planning protection based on the analysis of archaeological data, which includes the urban morphological network structure and the primary and secondary urban elements that form the urban structure. Corresponding protection content and methods are proposed for different urban types and protection objects. The book also specifically introduces how to analyze background data and how to carry out planning protection methods, using case studies of urban conservation planning in San Francisco, USA; Capua, Italy; and Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Israel, to illustrate the content and methods of urban protection. This book is of reference value for formulating urban conservation plans and for urban planning designers and researchers.