Conservation and Planning

<p>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.</p><p><em>Conservation and Planning</em> takes a detailed look at the way these processes have evolved and their use today by policy makers and local decision makers.<br><br>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.</p> <p><strong>Part 1.</strong> The Context of Conservation 1. Contributions and Contradictions 2. The Ascendancy of Conservation 3. A Thematic Framework. <strong>Part 2.</strong> Conservation Values in Practice 4. National Conservation Organisations 5. Conservation in a Post-Industrial Mill Town 6. Conservation in a Historic Market Town. <strong>Part 3.</strong> Challenges to Conservation 7. Making the Connections 8. Conclusions. Postscript. References. Index.</p>