The Conservation Movement
A Cult of the Modern Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11004240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miles Glendinning (0000-0001-5512-5597, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Pages | 359-376 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0080440103000215 |
| OpenAlex | W2077133973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In this polemical paper, I argue that, although conservation has generally presented itself as an anti -modern phenomenon, it is actually very modern indeed; the rise of the conservation movement has been a key element in the modern transformation of the built environment. The paper assesses how this situation has come about, drawing on the turn-of-century ideas of Alois Riegl, and argues that this modern concept of the monument has had a positive, creative side and a negative, even destructive side. In a concluding section, I explore the problems that conservation faces today as a result of that ‘committed’ stance
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Social assessment of national parks through the example of the Aggtelek National Park
The Heritage-creation Process and Attempts to Protect Buildings of the Recent Past
Including Built Heritage in Environmental Improvement and Nature Recovery
Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis
Town walls, walled towns and tourism
A Blot on the Landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early twentieth-century Manchester
Conservation at the crossroads in Northern Ireland
Landscapes of exclusion
Contested Identities
Values and Heritage Conservation
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |