| A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century Contributor(s): Stipe, Robert E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807854514 ISBN-13: 9780807854518 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $54.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: In this "best practices" volume for students, professionals, and policy makers, 15 essays by leading scholars and professionals explore the history of the preservation movement in the US, the current range of philosophies and strategies employed by professionals in the field, and recommendations for appropriate preservation strategies, both public and private. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Historic Preservation - General - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Architecture | History - General |
| Dewey: 363.690 |
| LCCN: 2003004109 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Richard Hampton Jenrette Architecture and the Decorative Arts |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.24" W x 9.32" (1.85 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field. A Richer Heritage will be an essential, thought-provoking guide for professionals as well as administrators, volunteers, and policy makers involved in preservation efforts. An introduction traces the evolution of historic preservation in America, highlighting the principal ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement. The book also describes the workings--legal, administrative, and fiscal--of the layered federal, state, and local government partnership put in place by Congress in 1966. Individual chapters explore the preservation of designed and vernacular landscapes, the relationship between historic preservation and the larger environmental and land-trust movements, the role of new private and nonprofit players, racial and ethnic interests in historic preservation, and the preservation of our intangible cultural values. A concluding chapter analyzes the present state of the historic preservation movement and suggests future directions for the field in the twenty-first century. Contributors include preservationists, local-government citizen activists, an architect, landscape architects, environmentalists, an archaeologist, a real-estate developer, historians, a Native American tribal leader, an ethnologist, and lawyers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stipe, Robert E.: - Robert E. Stipe is Emeritus Professor of Design in the Landscape Architecture Department at North Carolina State University. He is coeditor of The American Mosaic: Preserving a Nation's Heritage. |