Cultural landscapes : balancing nature and heritage in preservation practice

Cultural landscapes : balancing nature and heritage in preservation practice / Richard Longstreth, editor.

"Preservation has traditionally focused on saving prominent buildings of historical or architectural significance. Preserving cultural landscapes--the combined fabric of the natural and man-made environments--is a relatively new and often misunderstood idea among preservationists, but it is of...

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Other Authors: Longstreth, Richard W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Landscape assessment.
Cultural property > Protection.
Landscape protection.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
GARDENING > Garden Design.
GARDENING > Landscape.
ARCHITECTURE > Historic Preservation > General.
Cultural property > Protection
Landscape assessment
Landscape protection
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Table of Contents:
  • Landscape preservation and cultural geography / Julie Riesenweber
  • The politics of preservation : power, memory, and identity in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo / Hillary Jenks
  • Cross-Bronx : the urban expressway as cultural landscape / Michael Caratzas
  • The American summer youth camp as a cultural landscape / Courtney P. Fint
  • Wild lands and wonders : preserving nature and culture in national parks / Bonnie Stepenoff
  • Mediating ecology and history : rehabilitation of vegetation in Oklahoma's Platt Historic District / Heidi Hohmann
  • A continuum and process framework for rural historic landscape preservation : revisiting Ebey's Landing on Whidby Island, Washington / Nancy D. Rottle
  • Natural and cultural resources : the protection of vernacular landscapes / Susan Calafate Boyle
  • Cultural landscapes : venues for community-based conservation / Susan Buggey and Nora Mitchell
  • Management for cultural landscape preservation : insights from Australia / Randall Mason
  • Are we there yet? : travels and tribulations in the cultural landscape / Robert Z. Melnick.

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