Peter J. Larkham
Birmingham School of Planning, University of Central England
Introduction
This bibliography is designed to be of use to a range of students in built environment disciplines, geography, urban studies, heritage studies, etc; is should also have some relevance for built environment professionals (although it does not cover particular techniques of conservation). This is, inevitably, a personal selection; focusing principally on English experience and with some leaning to the research tradition of urban morphology, within which I work.
There is a concentration on conservation history; planning, law and policy; socio-economic approaches; emerging areas of concern. This is at the expense of mere recitations of successful area- or building-based case studies. For the purposes of this bibliography, I hold the principles to be of greater - and wider - significance than the detail of practices.
Particularly significant items, or those with less than clear titles, have some commentary appended in italics. Unpublished and difficult-to-obtain material, including conference papers and higher degree theses, have not been included; although some `grey literature' published by University departments is included.
There is a clear focus on English-language material, which is solely a product of my own linguistic inabilities.
