Conservation and Planning: Changing Values in Policy and Practice

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Taylor & Francis, 2004 - Architecture - 285 pages

Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion. The means of protecting such buildings and areas are well established but frequently suffer a lack of wider understanding.

Conservation and Planning takes a detailed look at the way these processes have evolved and their use today by policy makers and local decision makers.

This book presents original research into how national and local decision-makers construct and implement conservation of the built environment. The findings in this book challenge many of the assumptions supporting conservation.

 

Contents

Part
4
The ascendance of conservation
26
A thematic framework
56
Conservation values in practice
79
Geographical and spatial priorities
89
Commentary on the scope and focus of conservation
95
Commentary on the interpretation and articulation
109
To what extent do economic and political pressures
117
The Mount
158
Conservation in a historic market town
170
17843
180
Introduction
207
Challenges to conservation
215
The relationship between conservation
217
The basis of conservations support and legitimacy
225
The influence and variety of knowledge
232

Conservation in a postindustrial mill town
124
Current structure operation and priorities
130
Development cases
136
The Yard
144
The Square
152
Conclusions
246
Postscript
269
Index
283
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284
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About the author (2004)

Dr Edward Hobson is Senior Policy Adviser for Consumers' Association in London and Deputy Editor of Consumer Policy Review