This book uses the Historic Urban Landscape - the most recently codified notion of
international urban heritage conservation - to demonstrate why it is necessary to demarcate
history from cultural heritage and what consequences the increasing popularity of the latter
have on history. It also demonstrates how the history of cultural heritage can be constructed
as a historical problem. First the conceptual history of urban heritage preservation - based
on the standard setting instruments of international organizations - reveals the fundamental
elements of the current concept of urban heritage. Second this concept as worded in the HUL
approach is investigated through the analysis of Vienna which played a crucial role in the
establishment of HUL. These examples are used to to show how the evolution of cultural heritage
can be constructed as a historical problem.
