Conservation and the City by Peter Larkham - 9780415079471

Taylor & Francis

This book is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs, and even tiny villages - and how the activities of conservation interact with the planning system. > \nIt is a widely held belief that cities must change, or they will wither and die. One of the key problems of urbanization is how to cope with these changes while retaining the structures constructed and maintained by previous generations.\nConservation and the City is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs and even tiny villages - and how the activites of conservation interact with the planning system. Using detailed case studies from Britain and the Westernized world, the author examines some of the key social, economic and psychological ideas which support conservation, as well as studying the urban landscape and the agents of change.\nConservation and the City seeks to understand urban conservation, and in doing so presenw