Buildings, landscapes, and memory
Subtitle: case studies in historic preservation
By: Daniel Bluestone
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780393733181
Other titles: Case studies in historic preservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Buildings, landscapes, and memory; title: Patriotism in place : Lafayette's triumphal tour of the United States, 1824-1825; title: Captured by context : architectural innovation and banality at Jefferson's university; title: Dutch homesteads in modern Brooklyn : the unused past; title: Conservation on the Hudson : saving the Palisades; title: The Arch and the neighborhood : marking westward expansion in St. Louis; title: Preservation and destruction in Chicago : narrating history while building a city; title: Chicago's Mecca flat blues : architecture, music, and race in the politics of place; title: A Virginia courthouse square : reviving the colonial; title: Drive-by history : Virginia's historic highway marker program; title: Toxic history : preservation on EPA Superfund sites.