Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie - Volume 4, Issue 3, 2019

UNESCO cultural landscapes and management challenges In 1992 UNESCO adopted guidelines to include cultural landscapes in the World Heritage List. Cultural Landscapes are defined as ‘combined works of nature and of man’. It is this interaction that has to be of outstanding universal value. It should also be the focus concerning the management of such World Heritage sites. It requires an interdisciplinary approach as it covers Read More

Urban World Heritage and the Historic Urban Landscape approach in the Netherlands Within the category of cultural landscapes on the UNESCO World Heritage List the ‘continuing urban landscapes’ are a small but interesting group of sites. This group consists of urban and suburban areas (‘urban landscapes’) with outstanding historical and heritage values, while at the same time they are characterized by a high degree of Read More

‘A balance between remembrance and promise’. An interview with Eric Luiten about landscape and the spatial dynamics of the New Dutch Waterline as a World Heritage In 2019 the New Dutch Waterline was nominated for the World Heritage List. Recently the chair of the quality team New Dutch Waterline, Eric Luiten, left office. The New Dutch Waterline became one of the key-projects of the Nota Belvedere (1999) of t Read More

Continuing landscapes as World Heritage The World Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 1972, in a period of growing awareness of the international dimensions of environment and heritage. However, it was also a period in which European visions of heritage were still dominant, for example on themes such as authenticity and the distinction between nature and culture. The World Heritage List, resulting from the Con Read More

Het dal van de Midden-Rijn. Beheer van een landschap met historische steden en wijngaarden en een transportroute Het Midden-Rijndal tussen Mainz en Koblenz, ingeschreven in 2002, is het enige werelderfgoed in Duitsland in de categorie organisch geëvolueerde cultuurlandschappen. Het is een complex gebied dat onder grote druk staat. De druk op het Midden-Rijndal blijkt uit de zeven state of conservation rapporten die t Read More

The Hoge Kempen rural industrial transition landscape: a layered landscape of Outstanding Universal Value? Up until the beginning of the 20th century, the eastern part of the Belgian province of Limburg was a sparsely populated and not very productive part of the country. The dominating heathland was maintained with sheep, which were an essential part of a small-scale extensive farming system. This all changed when co Read More

‘Sluisbuurt’ Amsterdam: world heritage and high-rise buildings On the northwestern part of the Zeeburgereiland, an island in the IJ, the municipality of Amsterdam is developing the Sluisbuurt quarter: a mixed-use neighbourhood with shops, offices, catering and education and no less than 5,500 residential units, some of which are high-rise. The Sluisbuurt soon proved controversial because of the visibility of the towers from the A Read More