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considers variety in the ways of thinking about, and doing, urban conservation across the countries of Europe in the recent past. The paper is concerned with the geography and history of Europe's towns and the way variations in these produce differences in urban character; it explores variations in conservation management and the representativeness of the parts of towns which are conserved versus those which are destroyed or redeveloped

considers the problems of preserving urban archaeological resources located in the midst of modern communities. The paper looks at issues such as scheduling; listed buildings and conservation areas; development control; Historic Scotland initiatives; and the importance of public awareness

attempts to summarise current knowledge of the Scottish medieval burgh, and to assess what has been learnt from the last twenty-five years of urban excavation and monitoring, with particular reference to Perth and other burghs

provides an archaeologist's perspective on producing a survey for the new series of the Scottish Burgh Survey, outlining the principal objectives, the sources and methods used, and some recurrent problems and highlighting some of the contributions to the survey made by the archaeological input

the paper reviews the conservation context of Edinburgh's historic centre and the need for a conservation strategy for the city, before examining the structure of the strategy and its main objectives

sets out the ways in which the conservation of archaeological deposits has been incorporated into the political agenda within the city, and maps out the ways in which this policy may develop

summarises the principal results of archaeological and topographical work in both Roman and medieval Carmarthen since the late 1960s, and discusses advances in knowledge, remaining problems and changing perceptions, and the contribution made by archaeology to the specifically Welsh issues of conquest, co-existence and change in Anglo-Norman towns. The paper also assesses success and failure in the conservation of the historic fabric, together with ways of interpreting and promoting the historic resource in a bi-lingual culture, stressing the need for continuing archaeological commitment

gives a local authority conservation officer's view on how we have reached the current level of `conservation consciousness', identifying key moments in the shift from the culture of comprehensive redevelopment which typified the approach to towns in the decades immediately after World War II