The course covers cultural heritage regulations, applications and practices in North Cyprus and in a global comparative perspective. How does it affect increasingly urbanized, multicultural and global society, and people's personal ties to places in the cultural landscape. The traditional antiquarian and museum approaches have also come to be highly questionable. In urban planning is heritage, conservation, economics and other social interests often collide and difficult trade-offs must be made. The course is aimed against this background to present the image of a dynamic and problematic cultural situation, starting with North Cyprus and with global comparisons.