ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book investigates the intellectual and cultural histories of the idea of the ‘protected vista’ in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. It examines the values inherent within London’s original protected vista–the view from Richmond Hill. The book argues that these values have subsequently come to inform, and are reinforced by, contemporary policies of view protection, which have become increasingly global phenomena. It suggests that the contemporary London View Management Framework owes a great deal to the Act which saved the view from Richmond Hill and all that the view stands for. The book shows that the legacies of that movement survived in the ‘Indignation’ campaigns of the early twentieth century, transposed through a series of technological innovations–from the mass production of inexpensive prints to the transport, advertising and photographic revolutions.
