Historic urban landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management promoted by unesco and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community however few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails and more importantly what it can achieve examples drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from timbuktu to liverpool . Reconnecting the city the historic urban landscape approach and the future of urban heritage provides a thorough discussion structured by themes on issues related to key topics in the field of urban management from changing demographics and increasing urbanisation to the pressures of economic development and decentralisation social . Reconnecting the city the historic landscape approach and the future of urban heritage the implementation of the recommendation on the historic urban landscape approach as proposed by . 2015 reconnecting the city the historic landscape approach and the future of urban heritage journal of architectural conservation vol 21 no 2 pp 136 138. Historic urban landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management promoted by unesco and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community however few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails and more importantly what it can achieve examples drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from timbuktu to liverpool