Kapila D. Silva is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Kansas, USA. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, from which he received a doctorate in architecture, and at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, from which he received professional training in architecture. He is the lead editor of Asian Heritage Management: Contexts, Concerns and Prospects (Routledge, 2013) and Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management (Routledge, 2017).

'The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific provides innovative perspectives on urban heritage conservation and development. A must read for students, teachers and researchers interested in contemporary issues facing urban heritage conservation and management in the Asia-Pacific.' - Sophia Labadi, Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Archaeology, University of Kent, UK 'The book provides a critical widening of the debate on conservation where historic urban landscapes get resituated in discussions about broader planning processes, enabling us to understand how "change" can be productively embraced and resisted simultaneously.' - Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University, USA'This is a highly engaging book on an increasingly important topic in international heritage conservation policy. In a region where many cities and cultures stretch back thousands of years, and in contexts where economic development is transforming lives and livelihoods, innovative, contextually grounded analyses are in high demand. Kapila Silva’s exciting and geographically ambitious collection of essays tackles such issues head on. Timely and much needed, it fills an important gap in the study of heritage in the Asia-Pacific.' - Tim Winter, Professor in Critical Heritage Studies, University of Western Australia 'As an academic interested in critical heritage studies along with holistic management approach, I see this handbook as a timely contribution on the HUL idea and associated practices. Spanning the Asia-Pacific region, the chapters - written by renowned and competent authors, navigate through logical sequence of themes – conceptualizing HUL, mapping the tangibles, safeguarding the intangibles, fostering sustainable urban heritage, localizing heritage stewardship, and assessing urban heritage policies. It is a good reference for learners and practitioners both.' - Neel Kamal Chapagain, Associate Professor, Director, Centre for Heritage Management, India

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordFrancesco BandarinIntroduction: Reimagining the conservation of Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-PacificKapila D. SilvaPART I: Conceptualising Historic Urban LandscapesChapter 1Cities: Palimpsests of cultural memory and their managementWilliam LoganChapter 2The Ideology of the Urban Cultural Landscape ConstructKen TaylorChapter 3Conserving Asia’s vernacular water urbanismsVinayak BharneChapter 4Re-imagining Eurasia: Past Flatland stories of urban and landscape heritageManu P. SobtiChapter 5Human Aspects of Historic Urban EnvironmentsJeremy C. WellsChapter 6Historic Landscapes in rapidly transforming Asian cities: Contestations, commodification, and learning from grounded observationsNihal PereraPART II: Mapping Tangible Urban HeritageChapter 7Evolution and repercussions of heritage designation process in Sindh, Pakistan: Lessons from Karachi and ShikarpurAnila NaeemChapter 8Urban morphology and historic urban landscape management: The case of Kolkata, IndiaMahbub RashidChapter 9The Historic Urban Landscape: New methodologies for exploring sense of placeSteven Cooke and Kristal BuckleyChapter 10Creating Information Management Systems for cultural World Heritage: Experiences from Central AsiaOna VileikisChapter 11Conservation of historic open space urban landscapes of Chittagong, BangladeshMaharina Jafrin, Beau B. Beza and Shamsul HossainChapter 12The role of natural landscape in historic Chinese citiesJunheng LaiPART III: Safeguarding Intangible Urban HeritageChapter 13The Sensory Heritage of Asian CitiesNisha A. FernandoChapter 14Ghats on the Ganga in Varanasi, India: The making of a vernacular urban landscape and its conservationAmita SinhaChapter 15Safeguarding ritual landscape of living urban heritages: A case of Navadurga masked dances festival of Bhaktapur, Nepal Sudarshan Raj TiwariChapter 16Intangible dimensions of urban heritage: Learning from holy cities of IndiaRana P.B. Singh, Pravin S. Rana and Sarvesh Kumar Chapter 17Cultural Routes in China: The urban heritage trails of ChóngqingJunli Chen and David JonesChapter 18Finding human well-being in historic urban landscapesJulie Williams LawlessPART IV: Fostering Sustainable Urban HeritageChapter 19Integrated Management Systems of the urban World Heritage properties of Kathmandu and SamarkandKai WeiseChapter 20Erasure and Appearance: A critical view on urban heritage management practices in China, Laos, Thailand, and VietnamJohn Stallmeyer and Lynne Marie DearbornChapter 21Sustainable Urbanism and Historic Urban Landscape ConservationFarhana Ferdous, Julie Williams Lawless, and Kapila D. SilvaChapter 22Regeneration of historic urban landscape with pedestrian-oriented streetscape design: The case of Deoksugung-gil Street in Seoul, South KoreaSung-Kyun KimChapter 23Towards safer and resilient urban environmentsRohit Jigyasu Chapter 24Rural development: A strategy for urban heritage management in the Asia-Pacific region Dennis RodwellPART V: Localizing Heritage StewardshipChapter 25Community-focused urban regeneration: Preserving and activating the HUL in Malaysian cities Richard A. Engelhardt and Neil Khor Chapter 26Community involvement in heritage conservation: The case of Kotagede, IndonesiaPunto WijayantoChapter 27 Transient heritage values, conflicting aspirations, and endangered urban heritage in the Historic Galle Fort, Sri Lanka Amanda Rajapakse and Kapila D. SilvaChapter 28Conserving the Historic Port Town of Tomo, Seto Inland Sea, Japan: Repositioning urban heritage in the ‘shrinking society’Yushi Utaka Chapter 29Understanding community-based heritage values: The case of the Tamil Brahmin Settlement in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, IndiaVaisali Krishna KumarChapter 30Wurundjeri-al Biik-u (Wurundjeri Country), Mag-golee (Place), Murrup (Spirit) and Ker-up-non (People): Aboriginal living heritage in Australia’s urban landscapesMandy Nicholson and David JonesPART VI: Assessing Urban Heritage PoliciesChapter 31The Historic Urban Landscape approach in the Australian context: Evolving heritage practice and city management frameworksSusan Fayad and Kristal BuckleyChapter 32The monument and the city: Examining India’s legacy of monument centric conservation in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape approach. Jyoti Pandey SharmaChapter 33Historic urban landscapes of China: Issues of conservation and managementZhe Geng and David JonesChapter 34Conserving historic urban cores in Iran: An overviewRana Amirtahmasebi and Mohammadsaeid IzadiChapter 35‘Land is a very limited definition of place’: Navigating urban heritage conservation in the Pacific Island nations Anita SmithChapter 36Historic Urban Landscapes in the Indian Ocean waters: Challenges of urban heritage custodianship for the Comoros, Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, and SeychellesZaheer Allam and David JonesChapter 37A Tale of Two Cities: How tourism development is treated in Yangon and Macau’s urban heritage planningHilary du Cros

Kapila D. Silva is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Kansas, USA. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, from which he received a doctorate in architecture, and at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, from which he received professional training in architecture. He is the lead editor of Asian Heritage Management: Contexts, Concerns and Prospects (Routledge, 2013) and Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management (Routledge, 2017).

'The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific provides innovative perspectives on urban heritage conservation and development. A must read for students, teachers and researchers interested in contemporary issues facing urban heritage conservation and management in the Asia-Pacific.' - Sophia Labadi, Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Archaeology, University of Kent, UK 'The book provides a critical widening of the debate on conservation where historic urban landscapes get resituated in discussions about broader planning processes, enabling us to understand how "change" can be productively embraced and resisted simultaneously.' - Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University, USA'This is a highly engaging book on an increasingly important topic in international heritage conservation policy. In a region where many cities and cultures stretch back thousands of years, and in contexts where economic development is transforming lives and livelihoods, innovative, contextually grounded analyses are in high demand. Kapila Silva’s exciting and geographically ambitious collection of essays tackles such issues head on. Timely and much needed, it fills an important gap in the study of heritage in the Asia-Pacific.' - Tim Winter, Professor in Critical Heritage Studies, University of Western Australia 'As an academic interested in critical heritage studies along with holistic management approach, I see this handbook as a timely contribution on the HUL idea and associated practices. Spanning the Asia-Pacific region, the chapters - written by renowned and competent authors, navigate through logical sequence of themes – conceptualizing HUL, mapping the tangibles, safeguarding the intangibles, fostering sustainable urban heritage, localizing heritage stewardship, and assessing urban heritage policies. It is a good reference for learners and practitioners both.' - Neel Kamal Chapagain, Associate Professor, Director, Centre for Heritage Management, India

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordFrancesco BandarinIntroduction: Reimagining the conservation of Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-PacificKapila D. SilvaPART I: Conceptualising Historic Urban LandscapesChapter 1Cities: Palimpsests of cultural memory and their managementWilliam LoganChapter 2The Ideology of the Urban Cultural Landscape ConstructKen TaylorChapter 3Conserving Asia’s vernacular water urbanismsVinayak BharneChapter 4Re-imagining Eurasia: Past Flatland stories of urban and landscape heritageManu P. SobtiChapter 5Human Aspects of Historic Urban EnvironmentsJeremy C. WellsChapter 6Historic Landscapes in rapidly transforming Asian cities: Contestations, commodification, and learning from grounded observationsNihal PereraPART II: Mapping Tangible Urban HeritageChapter 7Evolution and repercussions of heritage designation process in Sindh, Pakistan: Lessons from Karachi and ShikarpurAnila NaeemChapter 8Urban morphology and historic urban landscape management: The case of Kolkata, IndiaMahbub RashidChapter 9The Historic Urban Landscape: New methodologies for exploring sense of placeSteven Cooke and Kristal BuckleyChapter 10Creating Information Management Systems for cultural World Heritage: Experiences from Central AsiaOna VileikisChapter 11Conservation of historic open space urban landscapes of Chittagong, BangladeshMaharina Jafrin, Beau B. Beza and Shamsul HossainChapter 12The role of natural landscape in historic Chinese citiesJunheng LaiPART III: Safeguarding Intangible Urban HeritageChapter 13The Sensory Heritage of Asian CitiesNisha A. FernandoChapter 14Ghats on the Ganga in Varanasi, India: The making of a vernacular urban landscape and its conservationAmita SinhaChapter 15Safeguarding ritual landscape of living urban heritages: A case of Navadurga masked dances festival of Bhaktapur, Nepal Sudarshan Raj TiwariChapter 16Intangible dimensions of urban heritage: Learning from holy cities of IndiaRana P.B. Singh, Pravin S. Rana and Sarvesh Kumar Chapter 17Cultural Routes in China: The urban heritage trails of ChóngqingJunli Chen and David JonesChapter 18Finding human well-being in historic urban landscapesJulie Williams LawlessPART IV: Fostering Sustainable Urban HeritageChapter 19Integrated Management Systems of the urban World Heritage properties of Kathmandu and SamarkandKai WeiseChapter 20Erasure and Appearance: A critical view on urban heritage management practices in China, Laos, Thailand, and VietnamJohn Stallmeyer and Lynne Marie DearbornChapter 21Sustainable Urbanism and Historic Urban Landscape ConservationFarhana Ferdous, Julie Williams Lawless, and Kapila D. SilvaChapter 22Regeneration of historic urban landscape with pedestrian-oriented streetscape design: The case of Deoksugung-gil Street in Seoul, South KoreaSung-Kyun KimChapter 23Towards safer and resilient urban environmentsRohit Jigyasu Chapter 24Rural development: A strategy for urban heritage management in the Asia-Pacific region Dennis RodwellPART V: Localizing Heritage StewardshipChapter 25Community-focused urban regeneration: Preserving and activating the HUL in Malaysian cities Richard A. Engelhardt and Neil Khor Chapter 26Community involvement in heritage conservation: The case of Kotagede, IndonesiaPunto WijayantoChapter 27 Transient heritage values, conflicting aspirations, and endangered urban heritage in the Historic Galle Fort, Sri Lanka Amanda Rajapakse and Kapila D. SilvaChapter 28Conserving the Historic Port Town of Tomo, Seto Inland Sea, Japan: Repositioning urban heritage in the ‘shrinking society’Yushi Utaka Chapter 29Understanding community-based heritage values: The case of the Tamil Brahmin Settlement in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, IndiaVaisali Krishna KumarChapter 30Wurundjeri-al Biik-u (Wurundjeri Country), Mag-golee (Place), Murrup (Spirit) and Ker-up-non (People): Aboriginal living heritage in Australia’s urban landscapesMandy Nicholson and David JonesPART VI: Assessing Urban Heritage PoliciesChapter 31The Historic Urban Landscape approach in the Australian context: Evolving heritage practice and city management frameworksSusan Fayad and Kristal BuckleyChapter 32The monument and the city: Examining India’s legacy of monument centric conservation in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape approach. Jyoti Pandey SharmaChapter 33Historic urban landscapes of China: Issues of conservation and managementZhe Geng and David JonesChapter 34Conserving historic urban cores in Iran: An overviewRana Amirtahmasebi and Mohammadsaeid IzadiChapter 35‘Land is a very limited definition of place’: Navigating urban heritage conservation in the Pacific Island nations Anita SmithChapter 36Historic Urban Landscapes in the Indian Ocean waters: Challenges of urban heritage custodianship for the Comoros, Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, and SeychellesZaheer Allam and David JonesChapter 37A Tale of Two Cities: How tourism development is treated in Yangon and Macau’s urban heritage planningHilary du Cros

Kapila D. Silva is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Kansas, USA. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, from which he received a doctorate in architecture, and at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, from which he received professional training in architecture. He is the lead editor of Asian Heritage Management: Contexts, Concerns and Prospects (Routledge, 2013) and Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management (Routledge, 2017).

'The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific provides innovative perspectives on urban heritage conservation and development. A must read for students, teachers and researchers interested in contemporary issues facing urban heritage conservation and management in the Asia-Pacific.' - Sophia Labadi, Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Archaeology, University of Kent, UK 'The book provides a critical widening of the debate on conservation where historic urban landscapes get resituated in discussions about broader planning processes, enabling us to understand how "change" can be productively embraced and resisted simultaneously.' - Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University, USA'This is a highly engaging book on an increasingly important topic in international heritage conservation policy. In a region where many cities and cultures stretch back thousands of years, and in contexts where economic development is transforming lives and livelihoods, innovative, contextually grounded analyses are in high demand. Kapila Silva’s exciting and geographically ambitious collection of essays tackles such issues head on. Timely and much needed, it fills an important gap in the study of heritage in the Asia-Pacific.' - Tim Winter, Professor in Critical Heritage Studies, University of Western Australia 'As an academic interested in critical heritage studies along with holistic management approach, I see this handbook as a timely contribution on the HUL idea and associated practices. Spanning the Asia-Pacific region, the chapters - written by renowned and competent authors, navigate through logical sequence of themes – conceptualizing HUL, mapping the tangibles, safeguarding the intangibles, fostering sustainable urban heritage, localizing heritage stewardship, and assessing urban heritage policies. It is a good reference for learners and practitioners both.' - Neel Kamal Chapagain, Associate Professor, Director, Centre for Heritage Management, India

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordFrancesco BandarinIntroduction: Reimagining the conservation of Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-PacificKapila D. SilvaPART I: Conceptualising Historic Urban LandscapesChapter 1Cities: Palimpsests of cultural memory and their managementWilliam LoganChapter 2The Ideology of the Urban Cultural Landscape ConstructKen TaylorChapter 3Conserving Asia’s vernacular water urbanismsVinayak BharneChapter 4Re-imagining Eurasia: Past Flatland stories of urban and landscape heritageManu P. SobtiChapter 5Human Aspects of Historic Urban EnvironmentsJeremy C. WellsChapter 6Historic Landscapes in rapidly transforming Asian cities: Contestations, commodification, and learning from grounded observationsNihal PereraPART II: Mapping Tangible Urban HeritageChapter 7Evolution and repercussions of heritage designation process in Sindh, Pakistan: Lessons from Karachi and ShikarpurAnila NaeemChapter 8Urban morphology and historic urban landscape management: The case of Kolkata, IndiaMahbub RashidChapter 9The Historic Urban Landscape: New methodologies for exploring sense of placeSteven Cooke and Kristal BuckleyChapter 10Creating Information Management Systems for cultural World Heritage: Experiences from Central AsiaOna VileikisChapter 11Conservation of historic open space urban landscapes of Chittagong, BangladeshMaharina Jafrin, Beau B. Beza and Shamsul HossainChapter 12The role of natural landscape in historic Chinese citiesJunheng LaiPART III: Safeguarding Intangible Urban HeritageChapter 13The Sensory Heritage of Asian CitiesNisha A. FernandoChapter 14Ghats on the Ganga in Varanasi, India: The making of a vernacular urban landscape and its conservationAmita SinhaChapter 15Safeguarding ritual landscape of living urban heritages: A case of Navadurga masked dances festival of Bhaktapur, Nepal Sudarshan Raj TiwariChapter 16Intangible dimensions of urban heritage: Learning from holy cities of IndiaRana P.B. Singh, Pravin S. Rana and Sarvesh Kumar Chapter 17Cultural Routes in China: The urban heritage trails of ChóngqingJunli Chen and David JonesChapter 18Finding human well-being in historic urban landscapesJulie Williams LawlessPART IV: Fostering Sustainable Urban HeritageChapter 19Integrated Management Systems of the urban World Heritage properties of Kathmandu and SamarkandKai WeiseChapter 20Erasure and Appearance: A critical view on urban heritage management practices in China, Laos, Thailand, and VietnamJohn Stallmeyer and Lynne Marie DearbornChapter 21Sustainable Urbanism and Historic Urban Landscape ConservationFarhana Ferdous, Julie Williams Lawless, and Kapila D. SilvaChapter 22Regeneration of historic urban landscape with pedestrian-oriented streetscape design: The case of Deoksugung-gil Street in Seoul, South KoreaSung-Kyun KimChapter 23Towards safer and resilient urban environmentsRohit Jigyasu Chapter 24Rural development: A strategy for urban heritage management in the Asia-Pacific region Dennis RodwellPART V: Localizing Heritage StewardshipChapter 25Community-focused urban regeneration: Preserving and activating the HUL in Malaysian cities Richard A. Engelhardt and Neil Khor Chapter 26Community involvement in heritage conservation: The case of Kotagede, IndonesiaPunto WijayantoChapter 27 Transient heritage values, conflicting aspirations, and endangered urban heritage in the Historic Galle Fort, Sri Lanka Amanda Rajapakse and Kapila D. SilvaChapter 28Conserving the Historic Port Town of Tomo, Seto Inland Sea, Japan: Repositioning urban heritage in the ‘shrinking society’Yushi Utaka Chapter 29Understanding community-based heritage values: The case of the Tamil Brahmin Settlement in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, IndiaVaisali Krishna KumarChapter 30Wurundjeri-al Biik-u (Wurundjeri Country), Mag-golee (Place), Murrup (Spirit) and Ker-up-non (People): Aboriginal living heritage in Australia’s urban landscapesMandy Nicholson and David JonesPART VI: Assessing Urban Heritage PoliciesChapter 31The Historic Urban Landscape approach in the Australian context: Evolving heritage practice and city management frameworksSusan Fayad and Kristal BuckleyChapter 32The monument and the city: Examining India’s legacy of monument centric conservation in the context of the Historic Urban Landscape approach. Jyoti Pandey SharmaChapter 33Historic urban landscapes of China: Issues of conservation and managementZhe Geng and David JonesChapter 34Conserving historic urban cores in Iran: An overviewRana Amirtahmasebi and Mohammadsaeid IzadiChapter 35‘Land is a very limited definition of place’: Navigating urban heritage conservation in the Pacific Island nations Anita SmithChapter 36Historic Urban Landscapes in the Indian Ocean waters: Challenges of urban heritage custodianship for the Comoros, Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, and SeychellesZaheer Allam and David JonesChapter 37A Tale of Two Cities: How tourism development is treated in Yangon and Macau’s urban heritage planningHilary du Cros