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The Future of the Past: Livable Cities and the Future of Preservation

Authors : Stephanie Meeks, Kevin C. Murphy

Published in: The Past and Future City

Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

As the discussion we have been having over the course of this book attests, historic preservation in the twenty-first century is a remarkably dynamic and vibrant field. All acrosss the United States, preservationists are working in a host of ways to revitalize cities and communities, capture the contours of our shared past, address the most pressing challenges of today, and bring people together.

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Footnotes
1
Mike Sweeney, “Protecting What We’re Afraid Of,” Nature Conservancy, August 5, 2013, http://​blog.​nature.​org/​conservancy/​2013/​08/​05/​protecting-what-were-afraid-of/​.
 
2
Tom Mayes, “Why Old Places Matter—Community,” Preservation Nation, March 10, 2015, http://​forum.​savingplaces.​org/​blogs/​forum-online/​2015/​03/​10/​why-do-old-places-matter-community Pope Francis, “Encyclical Letter Laudato Si of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home,” May 24, 2015, http://​w2.​vatican.​va/​content/​francesco/​en/​encyclicals/​documents/​papa-francesco_​20150524_​enciclica-laudato-si.​html.
 
3
National Park Service Technical Preservation Standards, “A History of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards,” http://​www.​nps.​gov/​tps/​standards/​history-of-standards.​htm. Brown Morton, “Beyond History: Success and Failure in Preservation,” February 20, 2014, https://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​H-M4TZhASmg.
 
4
Morton, “Beyond History.”
 
Metadata
Title
The Future of the Past: Livable Cities and the Future of Preservation
Authors
Stephanie Meeks
Kevin C. Murphy
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-709-4_9