In selecting a building, particular attention should be paid to the following :

Association with events, activities or patterns

Association with important persons
Distinctive physical characteristics of design, construction or form, representing
work of a
master
Potential to yield important information such as illustrating social, economic
history, such
as railway stations, town halls, clubs, markets, water works, etc.
Technological innovations such as dams, bridges, etc.
Distinct town planning features like squares, streets, avenues, e.g. Rajpath in
Lutyen's
New Delhi
Historic integrity is the authenticity of a property's historic identity, evidenced by
the survival
of physical characteristics that existed during the property's historic period.

Cultural Landscape - the result of human intervention in the natural

landscape and present a record of human activity, Cultural landscape reveals
the influence of certain aspects of culture on the character and scope of
artificial or manmade processes those transform landscapes. Cultural
landscape is not merely chronological history, but the history of events,
places and people over time.
Though a lot of emphasis has been given to preservation of historic
landscapes associated with monuments, little attention has been paid to our
cultural landscapes, which reveal the civilization and how its culture has
woven the natural fabric of the place

There are three forces which define cultural landscape form:

Natural features
Components in the landscape which are the result of human
modification,
Pattern created in the landscape by human activity over time:

These are the result of processes which reflect the

relationship between way the landscape has been in the past
or is used now i.e. reflecting layers through times.

space. The study of cultural aspects of a particular area includes

the following:
The culture (who),
The cultural area (where),
The cultural History (when),
The cultural ecology (how),
The cultural Landscape (what)
The concept of culture offers a means of classifying human beings
into well- defined groups according to verifiable common
characteristics and also a means of classifying areas according to
the character of the human groups that occupy them.
Culture concerns our collective habits of thinking and acting
that give meaning to our existence.
Culture is an outcome of the ability of human beings to
communicate among themselves through symbols.
When people seem to think and act alike, they do so
because they live, work and talk together, learn from the
same companions and teachers, gossip about the same
events, issues and personalities, see around them the
same meaningful kind of manmade objects, participate in
the same rituals and remember the past.
Urban Design And Conservation Strategies
Restricting vehicles / multilevel parking
Pedestrian areas paved with traditional bricks
Introduction of Electrical Tram
Rationalizing services
Public Art, Street furniture and New lighting
Conservation of existing Heritage Structures
Control of hoardings

 Regulative measures for shopping facades

New urban landscape and amenities
Provision for cycle rickshaws, new kiosks for vendors
The uniqueness of a particular place is due to differences in social
customs and local traditions as well as the physical environment.