With the globalization of heritage, World Heritage conservation has developed into an interdisciplinary field that enables more inclusive debates across local and international contexts. As urban heritage sites confront layered global, regional, and local pressures, the need for a more systematic and comprehensive understanding of urban heritage has become increasingly evident. The cases examined in this chapter illustrate how governments and institutions can collaboratively—and sometimes controversially—shape cultural heritage conservation while negotiating competing cultural values, development imperatives, and community rights. Adopting a multi-stakeholder perspective that includes governments, nongovernmental organizations, indigenous and local communities, and the private sector, the chapter analyzes how cases from Singapore, Malaysia, and China navigate development pressures while safeguarding heritage in multicultural environments. The analysis foregrounds an approach that moves beyond the binary between purist and ameliorist conservation positions, arguing instead that sustained, meaningful consultation across stakeholder groups is essential for effective and equitable heritage governance. Ultimately, whatever forms future conservation and development models take—whether extensions or recalibrations of existing governance frameworks—they must acknowledge their own structural constraints and localized operational challenges. By strengthening citizen participation and collaborative governance, heritage systems gain the institutional capacity to reconcile preservation–development tensions and to enable future conservation models to evolve in more adaptive and context-responsive forms.