الفهرس 
PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE AND URBANOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
In historic cities, a persistent conflict has always been vivid between calls to preserve
cultural heritage, and the need for urban development and change in response to the
ever-changing values and demands of societies. Such conflict has two pressing
dimensions. The first dimension has been echoed throughout the academic literature via
the well-documented exploration and analysis of the ever-growing conflict between
urban conservation and tourism development. The second dimension has been reflected
in the ongoing perception shift of urban conservation within the physical planning field
(i.e. planning approaches and processes).
Theoretically, since the late 1940s, there has been a dynamic shift in the planning
paradigm resulting in the emergence of various planning approaches to land
development. Each of which is affected by, and/or based on, distinct planning
ideologies, lIses different planning tools and follows unique planning processes.
Consequently, the scope, approaches, styles and levels of urban conservation have to be
altered and shifted dramatically depending on the planning approach adopted within the
context of historic cities.
Empirically, on the scale of urban projects, there has been a widely reported and
documented gap between what is planned and what is actually implemented. Although
the endless explanations, the common explanation relates such gap to the adoption of
different, and sometimes conflicting, planning approaches to land development within
the context of the very same project. As a result, objectives, allocation of funding,
institutional arrangements and methodology of urban conservation at the planning stage
has to be completely altered, and at most of times, hindered and terminated at the gates
of implementation. This case has been vivid throughout the physical planning and urban
conservation process (i.e. planning and implementation processes) of Luxor City, Egypt
since the late 1970s till this very moment.
This study focuses on, on the one hand, theoretically exploring, analysing and
documenting the paradigm shift of urban conservation with specific reference to
physical planning practice. On the other hand, it applies the above theoretical outcome
to the case of Luxor City in search for explanation and future ideologies.