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In Spring 1990, a major international conference celebrated 20 years of successful conservation in Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town and considered the challenges now facing not just the Scottish Capital but historic towns and cities throughout Europe. The extent to which Britain has fallen behind the rest of Western Europe in the provision of public transport in historic towns; the threat to the living hearts of cities posed by the heritage industry; the encouraging examples of Lyon and Paris, Zurich and Bologna. These were some of the matters addressed – and now published in this book – by a distinguished group of speakers. These included: Sir Bernard Feilden, Neil Ascherson, Graham Duncan, Dr Carmen Hass-Klau, Professor Alistair Rowan, Didier Repellin, Professor Alexander Youngson, Bert Winterbottom, Dennis Rodwell, and James Simpson. The conclusions and recommendations drawn from their papers by Patrick Harrison sets a conservation agenda for the 1990s. It is an agenda not just for Edinburgh, but for historic towns everywhere. *Excellent condition.