%T ‘The ruins caused a catch in the throat as memories came flooding in’ %A James Lesh %A David Nichols %I Australasian Urban History Planning History Group %D 2018 %K Buildings, %K History, %K Nationalism, %K Urban planning, %K Cultural heritage %P 266-274 %R 10.25916/5c243f0bdb5a0 %U https://apo.org.au/node/212611 %X The origins of a conservation ethos in the urban Australia of the late 1960s and early 1970s is commonly assumed to stem from international influences. Yet there is also a local cultural element to this urban conservationism, the recognition, celebration and preservation of historic environments, which pre-dates the 1970s popular heritage movement. %9 Conference paper