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Historic Preservation: Preserving Value?

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2011
The creation of historic districts has become a common way to preserve historic buildings and neighborhoods. Advocates of historic districts assume that such districts augment, or at least, protect property values for homes within these districts. The existing economic literature supports this conclusion, but most studies seem to fall victim to an ...
Martin D. Heintzelman, Jason A. Altieri
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Historic Preservation

Humanity & Society, 2017
Social justice and housing issues are clearly an area of concern for sociologists, yet preservation of older homes and buildings may seem to be the very antithesis, evoking images of homes of the nation’s elite or neighborhood gentrification by the white upper middle class. Often preserved historic sites do not fully represent members of the community,
Diane M. Rodgers   +2 more
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Historic Preservation

2021
Historic preservation is an idea and a practice, an academic discipline and a field of political and cultural action. For social scientists, a critical approach to historic preservation means to interrogate the underlying assumptions about history, community, and culture that drive preservation contests as well as the sociospatial outcomes: how places ...
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Technologies for Wood Preservation in Historic Preservation

Archives and Museum Informatics, 1999
Because of the abundant forests of the world, wood is one of the most common materials found in historic buildings. Wood is relatively easy to fabricate into beams, columns, and roof systems using simple hand tools. However, because of its biological origin, wood is one of the most complex constructions materials.
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Investigation and Preservation of Historic Foundations

2023
Italian experiences provide a long list of successful engineering solutions for the preservation of historic sites and, in particular, of tall structures like medieval and bell towers. Among them, Pisa Tower and Frari Bell Tower in Venice can demonstrate that innovative approaches and methodologies for the strengthening of historic foundations can be ...
Michela Marchi, Guido Gottardi
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HISTORICAL CARS AS HISTORICAL HERITAGE TO PRESERVE

SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences - ISCSS, 2021
This article shows how in the last two decades UNESCO had started to recognize the nonprofit international association the Federation Internationale des Vehicules Anciens (FIVA) historical cars as part of its world heritage initiative. FIVA was founded in 1966 and its aim is the preservation, restoration, use and culture of mechanically propelled road ...
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