The program graduates in this track will focus on the Historic Urban Landscape approach – designing the urban field created by the layering of qualities, cultural and natural values throughout history.

Master's Program in Conservation and Heritage

The Master's Program in Conservation and Heritage offers to examine the increasing importance of preservation as an integral component in the field of urban design and planning of the city, from a critical approach to the conservation activities and the essence of conservation in the urban space. It will make it possible to delve into the significance of urban heritage in the Israeli reality in which processes of urban renewal increasingly deal with textures and structures of historic and social importance. Processes whose intensity and scope pose more and more new challenges before the designers and decision makers, and which require the formulation of a policy, and the creation a diverse toolbox which includes tools for social involvement, knowledge and design tools, regulation and financial tools.

The urban heritage is an essential resource of life in cities and urban areas. It includes tangible and intangible components relating to the human diversity existing in cities in the present, and which have existed in them in the past.

In it lies the potential for economic development and for the creation of social unity and resilience in a dynamic environment, an environment which frequently changes under the influence of economic, social and cultural processes, while preserving its components and characteristics. The program graduates in this track will focus on the Historic Urban Landscape approach – designing the urban field created by the layering of qualities, cultural and natural values throughout history. This method expands the concept "historic center" or "complex" and includes broad urban contexts as well as their geographic environment.

(UNESCO, November 2011).