The Landscape of Industry is an integrated study which establishes a method for the analysis of complex industrial landscapes. Based on a study of the Ironbridge Gorge, the authors consider a range of material evidence, combining archaeological appraisal of the landscape with analysis of its characteristic settlement patterns and built forms. The authors consider the shifting relationship between landscape and industry. Industrialization is itself shaped and constrained by the landscape in which it occurs, and the authors consider the interaction of environment and industry as the...

The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses is an integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complex heritage of industrial cultures. The authors (both active workers in the field) suggest that concepts of heritage defined to deal with pre-industrial cultures are of limited use in dealing with the very different demands presented by industrial objects and the societies which produced them. At the same time, because the impact of industrialization changes over time and within different societies, the authors have produced a...