Why preservation matters
By: Max Page
Series: Why X matters series; Why X matters
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780300218589
Subjects: United States; Historic preservation; Conservation and restoration; Historic sites; Historic buildings
Description: "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 but 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"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Todos por la vida, everything for life; title: Not your grandmother's preservation movement; title: Why we preserve; title: How Americans preserve; title: Preservation and economic justice; title: Preservation and sustainability; title: Preserving and interpreting difficult places; title: Beauty and justice.