Introduction: Making heritage industrial buildings work: HRH The Prince of Wales -- Conservation and Regeneration -- Reviving industrial buildings: an overview of conservation and commercial interests / Michael Stratton -- Understanding the potential: location, configuration and conversion options / Michael Stratton -- From dereliction to sustainable urban regeneration: the example of Stoke-on-Trent / Rick Ball -- New Communities and Markets -- Regeneration Through Heritage: combining commercial skills and community interests / Fred Taggart -- New uses for old industrial buildings / Nicholas Falk -- The role of the entrepreneur: seeing the opportunity and ensuring success / Bennie Gray -- Tourism and the industrial heritage: new uses as museums and heritage centres / Michael Stratton -- International Initiatives -- Old buildings for new enterprises: the Swedish approach / Bo Ohrstrom -- Regeneration in the Neue Bundeslander: Carl Zeiss, Jena (1991-6) / Philip Tidd -- Looking to the Future -- Industry and regeneration in a new century / John Worthington -- Regeneration Through Heritage Database -- Conservation and regeneration projects in Britain and Ireland / Michael Stratton, Sue Taylor.

Written by an authoritative team of experts, this book gives guidance as to the types of building stock offering greatest potential for conversion that are likely to be viable and sustainable. The team of authors includes historians, researchers, conservationists, designers and entrepreneurs. The book covers a wide range of issues from analysis of different types of industrial building and conservation policy to a useful illustrated case study section presenting successful initiatives in different environments and countries.