CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE: ON THE CONTEXT OF DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE VISION

Cultural landscape consists of dialectic between the natural physical setting, the human modifications to that setting, and the meanings of the resultant landscape to insiders and outsiders. Continuous interaction takes place between these three elements over time. The concept of cultural landscape therefore embodies a dynamic understanding of history, in which past, present and future is seamlessly connected. It is combinations of history and nature and also that in the course of time it change or sometimes ruin; therefore, the conservation of cultural landscapes should give them a new lease of life. Historic urban landscape is a mindset, an understanding of the city, or parts of the city, as an outcome of natural, cultural and socio-economic processes that construct it spatially, temporally, and experientially. In terms of ‘historic urban landscapes’, the key to marrying old and new is to reinforce and enhance the equilibrium between development and conservation, to sustain the urban landscape. In new paradigm for conservation of historic urban landscape, every historic area and its surroundings should be considered in their totality as a coherent whole whose balance and specific nature depend on the fusion of the parts of which it is composed and which include human activities as much as the buildings, the spatial organization and the surroundings.