Valuing Historic Environments

Lisanne Gibson, Lecturer, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK and John Pendlebury, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK

Contents: Introduction: valuing historic environments, Lisanne Gibson and John Pendlebury; Part I Values and Heritage Stewardship: Patrons, populists, apologists: crises in museum stewardship, David Lowenthal; Deference and humility: the social values of the country house, Laurajane Smith; Historic landscapes and the recent past: whose history?, Peter Howard. Part II Cultural Landscapes: Cultural landscapes and identity, Lisanne Gibson; Being autocentric: towards symmetry in heritage management practices, John Schofield; Reputation and regeneration: history and the heritage of the recent past in the re-making of Blackpool, John K. Walton and Jason Wood; Values not shared: the street art of Melbourne's city laneways, Tracey Avery. Part III The Heritage of Housing: The Georgian house: the making of a heritage icon, Peter Borsay; Social housing as heritage: the case of Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, John Pendlebury, Tim Townshend and Rose Gilroy; Whose housing heritage?, Peter Malpass; Index.