A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century

About this book

Surveying the past present and future of historic preservation in America this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field. A Richer Heritage will be an essential thought-provoking guide for professionals as well as administrators volunteers and policy makers involved in preservation efforts. An introduction traces the evolution of historic preservation in America highlighting the principal ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement. The book also describes the workings legal administrative and fiscal of the layered federal state and local government partnership put in place by Congress in 1966. Individual chapters explore the preservation of designed and vernacular landscapes the relationship between historic preservation and the larger environmental and land-trust movements the role of new private and nonprofit players racial and ethnic interests in historic preservation and the preservation of our intangible cultural values. A concluding chapter analyzes the present state of the historic preservation movement and suggests future directions for the field in the twenty-first century. Contributors include preservationists local-government citizen activists an architect landscape architects environmentalists an archaeologist a real-estate developer historians a Native American tribal leader an ethnologist and lawyers.