The city and city cultures are complex entities, which architects, urban designers, and planners need to understand with various perspectives and scales, ranging from a single building to a regional and global contexts. To have better understanding of our urban and architectural cultures is a prerequisite to become a thoughtful architect and urbanist. The goal of this course is to let architecture students be exposed to the traditional and contemporary issues on the city, city cultures. cultural heritages and their conservation trends. This course consists of three parts: The first part is to upgrade students' understanding of various aspects in urban and architectural cultures that the city has been shaping, living, and negotiating. The second part is to deepen their understanding of architectural and urban cultures by approaching them as objects of our cultural heritage. The third part is to learn about the authenticity and utilization of cultural heritages under the current structures of cultural institutions and industries, along with the recent preservation efforts to manage them.