Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Longstreth, Richard W.

Description

ix, 218 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Summary

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 increasing importance. The essays collected in this volume-case studies that include the Little Tokyo neighborhood in Los Angeles, the Cross Bronx Expressway, and a rural island in Puget Sound-underscore how this approach can be fruitfully applied. Together, they make clear that a cultural landscape perspective can be an essential underpinning for all historic preservation projects.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Landscape assessment
• Cultural property > Protection
• Landscape protection

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The challenges of cultural landscape for preservation / Richard Longstreth -- 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.

ISBN

• 9780816650989 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0816650985 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780816650996 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0816650993 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007049870

OCLC

• 183609508
• SCSB-11369402

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library