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Politics and Preservation A Policy History of the Built Heritage 1882-1996

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ISBN-10: 0419223908

ISBN-13: 9780419223900

Edition: 1997

Authors: John Delafons, J. Delafons

List price: $235.00
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Politics and Preservation traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process, with both set in their political context.
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Book details

List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/15/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 215
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The heritage
Planning and conservation
Archaeology
Previous studies
The scope of conservation
The process of renewal
Outline
1882-1940
Origins
Early examples
Antiquarian interest
Eighteenth century studies
The Victorian restorers
Ruskin, Morris, and the SPAB
A dissenting voice
Ancient monuments
A premature initiative
Ancient Monuments Act 1882
A European comparison
More ancient monuments Acts
Ot her developments
Planning
Housing, Town Planning etc Act 1909
Housing and Town Planning Act 1919
Housing, etc Act 1923
Town and Country Planning Act 1932
Demolition and inaction
Medieval and Tudor buildings
Georgian and Victorian buildings
London churches
Waterloo Bridge
Robert Byron
The Georgian Group
Intermission
1940-1975
Prelude
The new system
Town and Country Planning Act 1944
Town and Country Planning Act 1947
Implementing the new Acts
Postwar reconstruction
Listing begins
Instructions to investigators
Interim lists
Conservations for some
The National Trust
The Gowers Committee
The Historic Buildings Council for England
A lone critic
A policy vacuum
Casework before policy
Progress with listing
Building preservation orders
Examples
Victorian architecture
Two landmark cases
The Coal Exchange
The Euston Arch
"Outrage"
A new impetus
A new policy approach
Urban renewal
Ministers make policy
Duncan Sandys
Richard Crossman
Lord Kennet
The policy momentum
Civic Amenities Act 1967
"Historic Towns: Preservation and Change."
Four studies in conservation
Town and Country Planning Act 1968
The Preservation Policy Group
Continuity of Policy
The Department of the Environment
New acts and new circulars
European architectural heritage year
EAHY
Objectives
Organization
Grants
Other activities
Architectural Heritage Fund
"What is our heritage."
EAHY concludes
Save.Art 3: Churches
Churches
Ecclesiastical Exemption
Church and State
Alterations
Redundancy
Archbishop's Commission on Redundant Churches
Faculty Jurisdiction Committee
Lord Skelmersdale's statement
The Wilding Report
Cathedrals
Future prospects
1976:1996
Prelude
English Heritage is born
A consultation paper
"The way forward."
National Heritage Act
English Heritage at work
First annual report
Increasing workload
An advocacy role
Public image
Widening scope
Select Committee
The Committee's enquiry
Devil's advocate
The amenity bodies
Other evidence
The minister's evidence
Report
Government's response
Prioritizing the heritage
Department of National Heritage
English Heritage reviewed
National Audit Office Report
A new strategy
National Heritage Committee
Government's response
Advice and Doctrine
Twenty years of circulars
Criteria for listing
Planning policy guidance 15
The presumption
Original use
Alternative use
Deregulation
Design
No.1 poultry
The moral
Sustainable conservation
Sustainability
Attitudes to conservation
Windsor Castle fire
The heritage industry
Maintainance and repair
Policy review
Responsibility
Listing
Conservation areas
Devolution
The Acts of 1990-91
Postscript: a consultation document
Appendices
Chronology
Instructions to investigators
Listing criteria
Statistics
Select bibliography
Index