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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798741703321

Autore

Page Max

Titolo

Why Preservation Matters / / Max Page

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-300-22515-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Why X Matters Series

Disciplina

363.6/90973

Soggetti

Historic preservation - United States

Historic buildings - Conservation and restoration

Historic sites - Conservation and restoration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue todos por la vida-everything for life -- One. Not Your Grandmother's Preservation Movement -- Two. Why We Preserve -- Three. How Americans Preserve -- Four. Preservation and Economic Justice -- Five. Preservation and Sustainability -- Six. Preserving and Interpreting Difficult Places -- Seven. Beauty and Justice -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement-and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement's past and charts a path toward a more progressive future.   Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role in building more-just communities, it must transform itself to stand against gentrification, work more closely with the environmental sustainability movement, and challenge societies to confront their pasts. Touching on the history of the preservation movement in the United States and ranging the world, Page searches for inspiration on how to rejuvenate historic preservation for the next fifty years. This



illuminating work will be widely read by urban planners, historians, and anyone with a stake in the past.