Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and PracticeW. W. Norton & Company, 2000 - 254 Seiten [T]he best published overview of historic preservation... I use it as a course text. --Lauren Sickels-Taves, architectural conservator, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village Historic Preservation provides a thorough overview of the theory, technique, and procedure for preserving our architectural heritage. The perfect introduction for architecture students, local officials, community leaders, and the interested layperson, it covers preservation philosophy, the history of the movement, the role of national, state, and local government, the designation and documentation of historic structures, establishing a historic district, architectural styles, sensitive architectural design and planning, preservation technology, and the economics of building rehabilitation. |
Inhalt
Preface | 9 |
Introduction | 11 |
The Preservation Movement In the United States | 33 |
Historic Districts and Ordinances | 59 |
The Legal Basis for Preservation | 83 |
The Documentation and Designation of Individual Historic Properties | 93 |
Architectural Styles | 108 |
Design Issues | 139 |
Preservation Economics | 184 |
Other Preservation Issues | 208 |
Notes | 220 |
Further Reading | 228 |
Preservation Resources | 232 |
Degree Programs in Historic Preservation | 240 |
Architectural Terms | 242 |
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Seite 7 - Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ' ' See, this our fathers did for us.