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Conservation and the City is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs, even villages - and how the activities of conservation interact with the planning system. The book seeks to explore why and what change occurs, and who proposes and controls change, in areas of townscape that have been identified as worth conserving.
Examining the key social, economic, and psychological ideas which support conservation, the book discusses various countries' conservation planning systems and the fundamental ideas that act as precedents to guide future practice. Looking at the urban landscapes produced by the processes of conservation, the book focuses on the agents responsible for change and questions what is going on in conserved areas and who is doing it.

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Table of contents : Preface, Part 1: The Conservation Background, Chapter 1. Introduction: Conflict and Conservation, Chapter 2. The History of Urban Conservation, Chapter 3. The Spread of Conservationism: the British Experience, Chapter 4. Conservation and Changing Legislation: Implications for the Landscape, Part 2: The Changing Conserved Town, Chapter 5. Area-based Conservation, Chapter 6. Decision-makers and Decision-making in the Conserved Townscape, Chapter 7. Area Enhancement, Development Control and Policy, Chapter 8. Amounts and Types of Change in the Conserved City Centre, Chapter 9. Changes in Residential Conservation Areas, Chapter 10. The Impact of Change on the Conserved Townscape, Part 3: Implications of Conservation: Ethics, Theory, and Practice Chapter 11. Townscape Change and the Conserved City, Appendix 1: Chief Planning Officer's Report on Proposed Extension to Norwich Conservation Area, Appendix 2: Comments on the Crowngate Shopping Centre Scheme from the Worcester City Department of Technical Services Appendix 3 Approach to Managing Historical Urban Landscapes, References, Index

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''Undoubtedly the most important text in the field of conservation for some time...absolutely essential for students at all levels.'' -Town Planning Review