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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,
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Historic Preservation: Preserving Value?

The 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

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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Historical preservation

The Leading Edge, 2012
The Historical Preservation Committee (HPC) was established to continue the preservation of important artifacts, instruments, and documents that had previously been part of the SEG Geoscience Center which was closed in 2009. Despite its relatively brief existence, HPC has completed several projects and others are moving forward.
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Historic Preservation

2000
This article discusses Historic Preservation, why it is important, and some of the agencies and legislation supporting it. It also mentions the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan, and guidelines for identifying and evaluatic historic properties.
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Historical preserve

1954
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Preserving Historic Resources

Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, 1990
Abstract Historic preservation, like environmental protection, is a movement that has come of age in the past decade. Preservation advocates have gained credibility and influence by working with, rather than against, the local political process. “We have learned that the real place to be is not at the barricades or on the picket lines, but at the city ...
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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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