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Title Bending the future : fifty ideas for the next fifty years of historic preservation in the United States / edited by Max Page and Marla R. Miller.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the National Register of Historic Places, a national system of state preservation offices and local commissions, set up federal partnerships between states and tribes, and led to the formation of the standards for preservation and rehabilitation of historic structures. This book marks its fiftieth anniversary by collecting fifty new and provocative essays that chart the future of preservation. The commentators include leading preservation professionals, historians, writers, activists, journalists, architects, and urbanists. The essays offer a distinct vision for the future and address related questions, including: Who is a preservationist? What should be preserved? Why? How? What stories do we tell in preservation? How does preservation contribute to the financial, environmental, social, and cultural well-being of communities? And if the 'arc of the moral universe ... bends towards justice, ' how can preservation be a tool for achieving a more just society and world?"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Taking Stock; Who is a Preservationist?; What should be Preserved, and why?; What Stories should we be we Telling?; How do we, and should we, tell the Histories of Significant Places?; Can Preservation help Create more Economically Vibrant and just Communities?; Can Preservation help save the Planet?; The Future beyond the Bend: Toward 2066; What Historic Preservation Can Learn from Ferguson; From Passion to Public Policy: Making Preservation More Sustainable; Dislodging the Curatorial.
A Preservation Movement for All AmericansPreserving Social Character and Navigating Preservation Divides; Steps toward Decolonizing the National Historic Preservation Act; From Minority to Majority: Building On and Moving Beyond the Politics of Identity in Historic Preservation; Shockoe Bottom: Changing the Landscape of Public History in Richmond, Virginia; Historic Preservation: Diversity in Practice and Stewardship; Latinos in Heritage Conservation: Establishing a National Vision for American Latinos and Historic Preservation; The Necessity of Interpretation.
Keeping Us Honest: What Our Buildings Tell Us about the Health of Our CommunitiesLessons from the High Line: Don't Preserve. Repurpose; Historic Preservation and the Life Cycle; A Grand Coalition; Making Preservation Work for Struggling Communities: A Plea to Loosen National Historic District Guidelines; Should the NHPA Have a Greater Sense of Urgency?; Preservation and Invisibility; Repeal the National Historic Preservation Act; Cronocaos; Whose History, Whose Memory?: A Culturally Sensitive Narrative Approach; "They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships": Putting Life into Maritime Preservation.
Preservation toward ConservationHistoric America-and the Unremarked Rest; Preservation Demands Interpretation; A New Ownership Culture: Concepts, Policies, and Institutions for the Future of Preservation; Changing the Paradigm from Demolition to Reuse-Building Reuse Ordinances; Did Martha Washington Sleep Here?: Feminism, Power, and Preservation; Become a "Movement of Yes"; Critical Place-Based Storytelling: A Mode of Creative Interaction at Historic Sites; Digital Reconstruction as Preservation: Alternative Methods of Practice for Difficult and Lost Histories of the African American Past.
Race and Historic Preservation: The Case for Mainstreaming Asian American and Pacific Islander American Historic SitesPreserving the History of Gentrification; Pollution; Culture as the Catalyst: Broadening Our History, Intangible Heritage, and Enlivening Historic Places; A City Visible to Itself; I Want You to Run for Office; Preservationists Must be Anti-Gentrification Activists; Riding Preservation's New Wave: How to Build on Movements for Memoria; Preserving People; Teaching Landscape Literacy: Historic Preservation and Community Knowledge.
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Subject United States. National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Cultural property -- Protection -- United States.
Cultural property -- Protection.
United States.
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration.
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration.
Historic preservation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Historic preservation -- Social aspects.
Historic preservation.
Historic preservation -- United States -- Forecasting.
Forecasting.
Historic preservation -- United States.
United States -- Cultural policy.
Cultural policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Miller, Marla R., editor.
Page, Max, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9781625342157 1625342152 (DLC) 2016012903 (OCoLC)930997458
ISBN 9781613764220 (electronic book)
1613764227 (electronic book)
9781625342157 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781625342140 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625342144
1625342152 (paperback ; alkaline paper)