Basic explanation of how transferable development rights can be used to protect historic and cultural resources. #Economics #RealEstate #PreservationTools #Revitalization
NTHP Preservation Books_A_Preservationist's_Guide_to_Urban_Transferable_Development_Rights.pdf
Table of Contents Preservationists Look to the Future by Peter H. Brink Preservation: Making Good Things Happen by Richard Moe The Cultural Resources Challenge: Educating Americans About their Past by Robert G. Stanton The Place of Preservation in a World of Change by...
FJ_Winter_01.pdf
Table of Contents President’s Report by Richard Moe The Bidwell Training Center and Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild: Building an Environment that Nurtures Hope by William E. Strickland, Jr. The “Not So Big” Approach to Creating a Sense of Home by Sarah Susanka Values and...
Winter 2007 Journal.pdf
This booklet, created by the National Trust’s former Midwest Office in 2010, with funding from the Jeffris Family Foundation of Janesville, Wis., is designed to help municipalities save and reuse their historic buildings. #Rehabilitation #community #AdaptiveUse #RealEstate ...
Preserving-Wisconsin-book_FINAL_121310.pdf
"Our allegiance is to the future, not the past." This statement, spoken during a heated discussion about the fate of historic downtown Pittsburgh in light of the most recent urban renewal proposal, was not stated by the project developer or by city redevelopment staff. Instead, the chairman...
In Indianapolis, as in many urban areas of the United States, the best intentions of 1960s urban renewal devastated the central core of Indiana`s capital city. Highways cut a sweeping path through once nurturing and cohesive communities removing housing and business and religious anchors that...
We meet in a city that is the very symbol of reinvention. For us, Pittsburgh is also a living laboratory—the place where preservation pioneers have developed and perfected many of the techniques that are now part of every preservationist’s toolkit. I encourage you to take full...
revitalizing downtowns across America has been a part of the nation`s agenda for 40 years. Sometimes, as in the case of Urban Renewal and Urban Development Action Grants (UDAGs), the federal government has taken the lead. At other times, state and local governments have led the way, launching...
Anyone who has traveled beyond his or her front door has seen examples of vacant, neglected, and run-down properties. There is no true or consistent definition of a vacant property or an abandoned building, yet we know them when we see them. The National Vacant Property Campaign states that...
The following is an excerpt from a speech prepared for a statewide conference on smart growth held in Greensboro, N.C., in January 2000. Plans for inner-city projects must take into account that cities are characterized by continuous change and by economic and social diversity. As a result,...