Historic Preservation in the USA
By: edited by Karolin Frank, Patricia Petersen
Contributors: Petersen, Patricia
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783642075094; 9783662047675
Subjects: Civil engineering; Geography; Social sciences; Regional planning
Description: Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part of urban planning in US cities. In order to approach these planning, economic, and social issues in the field of historic preservation, this book analyzes a variety of interdisciplinary methods, focusing on four selected historic districts within the central business districts of Philadelphia and Boston (in the north) and Charleston and Savannah (in the south).
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Methodology and Terminology; title: Historic Preservation and Urban Planning; title: Who's Who: Support Strategies, Interests and Influence; title: Historic Preservation in Philadelphia; title: Historic Preservation in Boston; title: Historic Preservation in the South: Charleston and Savannah; title: Summary of Findings; title: Bibliography.