Preservation and the New Data Landscape

Preservation and the New Data Landscape
Author: Erica Avrami
Publisher: Issues in Preservation Policy
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781941332481

This book explores how enhancing the collection, accuracy, and management of data can aid in identifying vulnerable neighborhoods, understanding the role of older buildings, and planning sustainable growth. For preservation to play a dynamic and inclusive role, policy must evolve beyond designation and regulation and use evidence-based research.

Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation

Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation
Author: Gail Lee Dubrow
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2003-01-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801870521

This essay collection draws upon work presented at three national conferences on women and historic preservation held at Bryn Mawr College in 1994, Arizona State University in 1997, and at Mount Vernon College in 2000.

Preservation and Social Inclusion

Preservation and Social Inclusion
Author: Erica Avrami
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781941332603

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive, through more diversity in the profession and enhanced community engagement. Bringing together a broad range of practitioners, this book documents historic preservation's progress toward inclusivity and explores further steps to be taken.

Cultural Landscapes

Cultural Landscapes
Author: Richard W. Longstreth
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 1452913641

Preservation has traditionally focused on saving prominent buildings of historical or architectural significance. Preserving cultural landscapes-the combined fabric of the natural and man-made environments-is a relatively new and often misunderstood idea among preservationists, but it is of increasing importance. The essays collected in this volume-case studies that include the Little Tokyo neighborhood in Los Angeles, the Cross Bronx Expressway, and a rural island in Puget Sound-underscore how this approach can be fruitfully applied. Together, they make clear that a cultural landscape perspective can be an essential underpinning for all historic preservation projects. Contributors: Susan Calafate Boyle, National Park Service; Susan Buggey, U of Montreal; Michael Caratzas, Landmarks Preservation Commission (NYC); Courtney P. Fint, West Virginia Historic Preservation Office; Heidi Hohmann, Iowa State U; Hillary Jenks, USC; Randall Mason, U Penn; Robert Z. Melnick, U of Oregon; Nora Mitchell, National Park Service; Julie Riesenweber, U of Kentucky; Nancy Rottle, U of Washington; Bonnie Stepenoff, Southeast Missouri State U. Richard Longstreth is professor of American civilization and director of the graduate program in historic preservation at George Washington University.

Boston's "changeful Times"

Boston's
Author: Michael Holleran
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801866449

He describes subdivision design innovations and the use of deed restrictions, limits on building heights, and neighborhood zoning protection to control ever-increasing urban growth.

Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes

Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes
Author: Sherene Baugher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2010-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 144191501X

Historical archaeology of landscapes initially followed the pattern of Classical Archaeology by studying elite men's gardens. Over time, particularly in North America, the field has expanded to cover larger settlement areas, but still often with ungendered and elite focus. The editors of this volume seek to fill this important gap in the literature by presenting studies of gendered power dynamics and their effect on minority groups in North America. Case studies presented include communities of Native Americans, African Americans, multi-ethnic groups, religious communities, and industrial communities. Just as the research focus has previously neglected the groups presented here, so too has funding to preserve important archaeological sites. As the contributors to this important volume present a new framework for understanding the archaeology of religious and social minority groups, they also demonstrate the importance of preserving the cultural landscapes, particularly of minority groups, from destruction by the modern dominant culture. A full and complete picture of cultural preservation has to include all of the groups that interacted form it.

Beyond Preservation

Beyond Preservation
Author: Andrew Hurley
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439902305

A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighborhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapes.

Oaks in the Urban Landscape

Oaks in the Urban Landscape
Author: Laurence Raleigh Costello
Publisher: UCANR Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1601076800

This publication offers a comprehensive look at the management of oaks in urban areas. As development moves into oak woodland areas, more and more oaks are becoming "urban" oaks. Oaks are highly valued in urban areas for their aesthetic, environmental, economic and cultural benefits. However, significant impacts to the health and structural stability of oaks have resulted from urban encroachment. Changes in environment, incompatible cultural practices, and pest problems can all lead to the early demise of our stately oaks. Using this book you'll learn how to effectively manage and protect oaks in urban areas - existing oaks as well as the planting of new oaks. Three key areas are addressed: selection, care, and preservation. You'll learn how cultural practices, pest management, risk management, preservation during development, and genetic diversity can all play a role in preserving urban oaks. Arborists, urban foresters, landscape architects, planners and designers, golf course superintendents, academics, and Master Gardeners alike will find this to be an invaluable reference guide.

Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity

Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity
Author: Erica Avrami
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781941332702

Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. Most municipalities in the United States, and nearly all countries around the world, have laws and policies to preserve heritage in situ, seeking to protect places from physical loss and the forces of change. That privilege, however, is increasingly being unsettled by the legacies of racial, economic, and social injustice in both the built environment and historic preservation policy, and by the compounding climate crisis. Though many heritage projects and practitioners are confronting injustice and climate in innovative ways, systemic change requires looking beyond the formal and material dimensions of place and to the processes and outcomes of preservation policy--operationalized through laws and guidelines, regulatory processes, and institutions--across time and socio-geographic scales, and in relation to the publics they are intended to serve. This third volume in the Issues in Preservation Policy series examines historic preservation as an enterprise of ideas, methods, institutions, and practices that must reorient toward a new horizon, one in which equity and sustainability become critical guideposts for policy evolution.

The Cultural Landscape & Heritage Paradox

The Cultural Landscape & Heritage Paradox
Author: Tom Bloemers
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9089641556

The basic problem is to what extent we can know past and mainly invisible landscapes, and how we can use this still hidden knowledge for actual sustainable management of landscape's cultural and historical values. It has also been acknowledged that heritage management is increasingly about 'the management of future change rather than simply protection'. This presents us with a paradox: to preserve our historic environment, we have to collaborate with those who wish to transform it and, in order to apply our expert knowledge, we have to make it suitable for policy and society. The answer presented by the Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape programme (pdl/bbo) is an integrative landscape approach which applies inter- and transdisciplinarity, establishing links between archaeological-historical heritage and planning, and between research and policy.