ABSTRACT
IN Chapter 8, we saw how, in Western countries, following the self-immolation of the HeritageMilitant between 1914 and 1945, the Conservation Movement became successfully contained within the consensual framework of the welfare state, whose governing ethos of peaceful progress
allowed it to flourish as never before. The doctrine of sharp separation of old and new, agreed by
both conservationists and modern architects, allowed the Movement to coexist with the dominant
forces of radical reconstruction and to begin spreading its scope unobtrusively across wider areas of
the built environment, including the vast environments of the 19th century that still formed the main
target for modernising redevelopment.
