Following are a list of sources that have played a major role in defining the parameters of preservation philosophy in Europe and the United States.

Philosophy

Berry, Wendell. Good Neighbors: Building Next to History, Colorado Historical Society, Denver, 1980.

Bloomer, Kent C., and Charles W. Moore. Body, Memory and Architecture, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1977.

Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, R. and J. Dodsley, London, 1759.

Calthrope, Peter. The Next American Metropolis, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993.

Caudill, William Wayne. Architecture and You: How to Experience and Enjoy Buildings, Whitney Library of Design, New York, 1978.

Clay, Grady. Close-Up: How to Read the American City, Praeger, New York, 1973.

Clay, Grady. Right Before Your Eyes, Planners Press, Washington D. C., 1987.

Falkner, Ann. Without Our Past, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1977.

Fawcet, Jane. The Future of the Past: Attitudes to Conservation, 1147-1974, Whitney Library of Design, New York, 1976.

Garreau, Joel. Edge City, Doubleday, New York, 1988.

Green, Constance. American Cities in the Growth of the Nation, John De Gaff, New York, 1957.

Hernandez, Xavier et al. Barmi, Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Jackson, J. B. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994.

Jackson, J. B. American Space, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1972.

Jackson, J. B. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984.

Jackson, J. B. The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1980.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Modern Library, 1961, 1993.

Juan, Lim Jee. The Malay House, Institut Masyarakat, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, 1987.

Le Corbusier. When the Cathedrals Were White, Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1947.

Lowenthal, David and Marcus Binney. Our Past Before Us: Why Do We Save It? Temple Smith, London, 1981.

Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1960.

Lynch, Kevin. What Time Is This Place, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1972.

Madsen, Stephan Tschudi. Restoration and Anti-Restoration: A Study in English Restoration Philosophy, Universiteforlaget, Oslo, 1976.

McBryde, Isabel, ed. Who Owns the Past?, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985.

Mitchell, Lee Clark. Witnesses to a Vanquishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response, Priceton University Press, Princeton, 1981.

Morton, Terry B. Monumentum, vol. XII. International Conference on Monuments and Sites, US/ICOMOS, Washington D. C., 1976.

Mumford, Lewis. The Culture of Cities, Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1961.

Mumford, Lewis. The Highway and the City, New York, 1963.

Mumford, Lewis. Sticks and Stones, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1924.

National Trust for Historic Preservation. Preservation: Toward an Ethic in the 1980s, The Preservation Press, Washinton D. C., 1980.

Nelson, George. How to See: Visual Adventures in a World God Never Made, Little Brown, Boston, 1977.

Percival, Arthur. Understanding Our Surroundings, Civic Trust, London, 1979.

Smith, George S., John E. Ehrenhard, eds. Protecting the Past, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1991.

Steele, Fritz. The Sense of Place, CBI Publishing Company, Boston, 1981.

Tuan, Yi Fu. Segmented Worlds and Self, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1982.

Wallis, Allan D. Wheel Estate, Oxford, 1991.

Whyte, William. City, Doubleday, New York, 1988.