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Saving Places that Matter
Author | : Thomas F King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1315420481 |
Tom King, renowned expert on the heritage preservation process, explains to preservationists and other community activists the ins and outs of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Actand how it can be used to protect special places in your community.
Saving Special Places
Author | : Brian Hart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | : |
Special Places
Author | : Betty Roots |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0774841818 |
High Park, Scarborough Bluffs, the Humber Valley, the Port Lands. These are among the special places of Toronto. Each is a unique ecosystem within the busy urban region. Even though Torontonians think of the city as almost entirely built up, savannah or wetlands are only a subway ride away. Special Places explores the changing ecosystems of the Toronto area over this century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whole region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can still find in many of its natural spaces.
Saving America's Cities
Author | : Lizabeth Cohen |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374721602 |
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.
Saving Spaces
Author | : John H. Sprinkle, Jr. |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317497414 |
Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in the United States. John Sprinkle, Jr. identifies the ways in which the identification, evaluation, and stewardship of selected buildings and landscapes reflect contemporary American cultural values. Detailed case studies bring the text to life, highlighting various conservation strategies and suggesting the opportunities, challenges, and consequences of each. Balancing close analyses with a broader introduction to some of the key issues of the field, Saving Spaces is ideal for students and instructors of historic preservation.
Saving Maine
Author | : Bill Silliker |
Publisher | : Down East Books |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1461745225 |
Is Maine's famed natural character vanishing? The answer is: no, not all of it, thanks to the hard work and generosity of people such as Percival Baxter and Peggy Rockefeller, and of dozens of concerned, ordinary citizens and groups such as the Maine Coast Heritage Trust and The Nature Conservancy, which have helped to establish preserves and parks that will maintain at least some of the natural beauty of Maine forever.
The City Natural
Author | : Shen Hou |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082297858X |
The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888-1897). Yet, in that brief span, it brought to light many of the issues that would influence the future of American environmentalism. In The City Natural, Shen Hou presents the first "biography" of this important but largely overlooked vehicle for individuals with the common goal of preserving nature in American civilization. As Hou's study reveals, Garden and Forest was instrumental in redefining the fields of botany and horticulture, while also helping to shape the fledgling professions of landscape architecture and forestry. The publication actively called for reform in government policy, urban design, and future planning for the preservation and inclusion of nature in cities. It also attempted to shape public opinion on these issues through a democratic ideal that every citizen had the right (and need) to access nature. These notions would anticipate the conservation and "city beautiful" movements that followed in the early twentieth century. Hou explains the social and environmental conditions that led to the rise of reform efforts, organizations, and publications such as Garden and Forest. She reveals the intellectual core and vision of the magazine as a proponent of the city natural movement that sought to relate nature and civilization through the arts and sciences. Garden and Forest was a staunch advocate of urban living made better through careful planning and design. As Hou shows, the publication also promoted forest management and preservation, not only as a natural resource but as an economic one. She also profiles the editors and contributors who set the magazine's tone and follows their efforts to expand America's environmental expertise. Through the pages of Garden and Forest, the early period of environmentalism was especially fruitful and optimistic; many individuals joined forces for the benefit of humankind and helped lay the foundation for a coherent national movement. Shen Hou's study gives Garden and Forest its due and adds an important new chapter to the early history of American environmentalism.
Saving Money
Author | : Tanya Thayer |
Publisher | : LernerClassroom |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0822512912 |
Presents the concept of saving money and items for which a young child might save, such as gum, a book, or even a car.
Conservancy
Author | : Richard Brewer |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1584654481 |
The first complete treatment of the U.S. land trust movement as a crucial feature of current efforts to protect the environment.