The good, the bad and the unbuilt: Handling the heritage of the recent past. Proceedings of the heritage CHAT conference, UCL 2008.

This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of ‘Heritage’. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past (Sarah May, Hilary Orange and Sefryn Penrose); 1) Null and Void: the Palace of the Republic, Berlin (Caroline A. Sandes); 2) The Heritage of a Metaphor: Archaeological Investigations of the Iron Curtain (Anna McWilliams); 3) Titanic Quarter: Creating a New Heritage Place (Mary-Cate Garden); 4) The Aquatic Ape and the Rectangular Pit: Perceiving the Archaeology and Value of a Recreational Landscape (Jeremy Lake); 5) Attitudes to London’s Heritage: Interpreting the Signs (David Gordon); 6) Where the Streets Have no Name: a Guided Tour of Pop Heritage Sites in London’s West End (Paul Graves-Brown); 7) Contemporary Places and Change: Lincoln Townscape Assessment (David Walsh and Adam Partington); 8) Revolutionary Archaeology or the Archaeology of Revolution? Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain (Hassan Fazeli and Ruth Young); 9) Justifying Midcentury Trash: Consumer Culture of the Recent Past and The Heritage Dilemma (Jessica Merizan); 10) Motorways, Modern Heritage and the British Landscape (Peter Merriman); 11) Liberating Material Heritage (Elizabeth Pye); 12) Unbuilt Heritage: Conceptualising Absences in the Historic Environment (Gabriel Moshenska).