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Author: Steve Tiesdell Publisher: Architectural Press ISBN: 9780750668347 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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By examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters, this book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration. It focuses on areas with significant concentrations of historic buildings; with places and area-based approaches. Such quarters confer a sense of place and identity through their historic continuity and cultural associations. Often integral elements of a city's charm and appeal, their visual and functional qualities are important elements of the city's image and identity. The lessons and observations from the experience of such quarters forms the core of this book with a range of case study examples from North America and Europe illustrating a variety of approaches to and outcomes of conserving, revitalizing and stewarding historic quarters. * Synthesis the fields of urban design and urban regeneration * Contributes to the growing interest in the renaissance of city centers & city living * Embraces the role of architecture & planning in the creation of a fertile environment for living & working
Author: Steve Tiesdell Publisher: Architectural Press ISBN: 9780750668347 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
By examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters, this book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration. It focuses on areas with significant concentrations of historic buildings; with places and area-based approaches. Such quarters confer a sense of place and identity through their historic continuity and cultural associations. Often integral elements of a city's charm and appeal, their visual and functional qualities are important elements of the city's image and identity. The lessons and observations from the experience of such quarters forms the core of this book with a range of case study examples from North America and Europe illustrating a variety of approaches to and outcomes of conserving, revitalizing and stewarding historic quarters. * Synthesis the fields of urban design and urban regeneration * Contributes to the growing interest in the renaissance of city centers & city living * Embraces the role of architecture & planning in the creation of a fertile environment for living & working
Author: Tim Heath Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136020748 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 242
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This book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters. Its focus is on quarters or areas where there is a significant number of historic buildings concentrated in a small area; with places and area-based approaches. Many cities have such quarters that confer on them a sense of place and identity through their historic continuity and cultural associations. The quarters are often an integral element of the city's image and identity. The lessons and observations from the experience of the revitalization of such historic urban quarters forms the core of this book with a number of case study examples from North America and Europe showing a variety of approaches to and outcomes of revitalization.
Author: Steven Tiesdell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: Category : City Planning Languages : en Pages : 256
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By examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters, this book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration. It focuses on areas with significant concentrations of historic buildings; with places and area-based approaches.
Author: Michael A. Burayidi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134573391 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 313
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This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas.
Author: Stephanie Meeks Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 161091709X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 353
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At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods, the promise and potential of using our older and historic buildings to revitalize our cities is stronger than ever. This urban resurgence is a national phenomenon, boosting cities from Cleveland to Buffalo and Portland to Pittsburgh. Experts offer a range of theories on what is driving the return to the city—from the impact of the recent housing crisis to a desire to be socially engaged, live near work, and reduce automobile use. But there’s also more to it. Time and again, when asked why they moved to the city, people talk about the desire to live somewhere distinctive, to be some place rather than no place. Often these distinguishing urban landmarks are exciting neighborhoods—Miami boasts its Art Deco district, New Orleans the French Quarter. Sometimes, as in the case of Baltimore’s historic rowhouses, the most distinguishing feature is the urban fabric itself. While many aspects of this urban resurgence are a cause for celebration, the changes have also brought to the forefront issues of access, affordable housing, inequality, sustainability, and how we should commemorate difficult history. This book speaks directly to all of these issues. In The Past and Future City, Stephanie Meeks, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, describes in detail, and with unique empirical research, the many ways that saving and restoring historic fabric can help a city create thriving neighborhoods, good jobs, and a vibrant economy. She explains the critical importance of preservation for all our communities, the ways the historic preservation field has evolved to embrace the challenges of the twenty-first century, and the innovative work being done in the preservation space now. This book is for anyone who cares about cities, places, and saving America’s diverse stories, in a way that will bring us together and help us better understand our past, present, and future.
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Historic preservation is seen frequently as a neutral and beneficial activity important in its attempt to protect for future generations the links with their cultural past. When a population is marked by diversity, however, it becomes necessary to consider how different racial or ethnic groups perceive historic preservation so that what is being preserved is not just a reminder of a history of segregation. Preservation cannot be based only on the values of particular groups who may have no special connection with the area in which they live. When this is so, it may further reinforce inequalities with regard to access to privileged places. The French Quarter of New Orleans is a heterogeneous mixture of buildings of different periods, persons and activities. In it, black population contributed to its construction, was formally an important group of property owners but over time their presence, as residents, has been almost eliminated. This reduction in black population has taken place at a time when the French Quarter was being regenerated from the abandon that marked the earlier part of this century and was being accepted as a respectable place to live for more affluent persons. Thus, preservation has had the effect of reducing the racial diversity of the Quarter. Through the analysis of extended conversations with a diverse group of denizens, it has become clear that the segregated past of the Quarter still affects the perception of the black majority population of the Quarter, and it is not a place where they feel comfortable to live. Likewise it affects the priority given to the whole issue of preservation, particularly when in discourse it is viewed as a barrier to economic development perceived as beneficial to a majority black population through job generation. Similarly, in the Quarter problems such as music making in public spaces and the imposition of 'zero tolerance' as a police strategy, generate further racial tensions. Such tensions put the development/preservation debate in particularly dichotomous terms, and tend to reinforce racial tensions and stereotypes.