Preservation Leadership Forum is presenting a series of posts by Sarah Rovang , the 2017 recipient of the H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians. The fellowship allows its recipients—recent graduates with advanced degrees or emerging scholars—to...
Editor's note: For more on Brian Turner's presentation in Grenada r ead his previous post , in which he discusses intangible heritage preserved through the San Francisco Legacy Business Program. The 2018 International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development had global...
Table of Contents: Remembering Louise Crowninshield by Kim Burdick The French Have a Word for It by Anthony Veerkamp How Preservationists Can Use Public Opinion Surveys on Sprawl by Elizabeth Pianca Urban Revitalization: When Rehab Grows Up by Lisa Burcham City...
FJ_Spring_00.pdf
Table of Contents Interstate Safety Rest Areas: Enhancing the American Travel Experience by Joanna Dowling Considering Archeology: What Site Stewards Should Know by Scott M. Grammer The Paradores of Spain: A Sojourn to Refresh the Preservation Soul by Theodore Ligibel ...
Fall 2008 Journal.pdf
By Clare Flynn Hogwarts, Winterfell, Downton Abbey, the First Jedi Temple—the images that spring to mind when one considers many of the iconic settings from recent films and television series are not of fictional or imaginary places, but rather of the real-life heritage sites that...
Whether they are preserving thousand-year-old terraces in China or medieval French churches, preservationists around the world face many of the same challenges. How to design compatible additions to historic buildings? Should sacred spaces be repurposed? Is commercialism of historic sites a good...
Fall-2013-forum-journal.pdf
The thing that I’m most interested in at the moment is the notion of values and valuing— and how one incorporates values into cities. As we all know, many of the cities we have are great disappointments. The way we treat our cities—you can really see it when you walk around in...
Kumakura, a quintessential Japanese mountain village in Gunma Prefecture northwest of Tokyo, was settled about 150 years ago. The dry, well-drained slopes of the surrounding mountains proved to be perfect for growing mulberry, and residents terraced the steep hillsides, building up solid stone...
In the Summer 2007 issue of this journal, de Teel Patterson Tiller struck a familiar chord when he introduced “ Obey the Imperatives of Our Own Moment: A Call for Quality Contemporary Design in Historic Districts .” Tiller opened by stating: “It is axiomatic that the heritage preservation...
A few weeks ago, stuck in the pages of a Pottery Barn catalog (no matter where I move, I can always count on the Boston University Alumni Association and Pottery Barn to track me down) was a poignant plea for help. The League of Historic American Theatres (LHAT) was reaching out to its members...