Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb by Jeffrey A. Kroessler, and: Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City by Gordon Young (review)
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Abstract
new proposals for the site accountable to public review and local demands for more affordable housing. His vivid description of this contentious episode successfully conveys the sense of community desperation that is often the prime motivator, unfortunately, for members of the public to engage in preservation work. Passell concludes his study by reiterating his claim that the effects of historic district designations are determined by contingent historical and geographical factors, and then calling for additional placebased case studies of the historic districting process. Ultimately, the ambitions of Preserving Neighborhoods are modest. Never proposing to resolve the question of whether historic districts are ultimately good or bad for architecture or urban life, the book is an invitation to rethink a powerful historic preservation tool from a datadriven and communitycentered perspective.
期刊介绍:
Buildings & Landscapes is the leading source for scholarly work on vernacular architecture of North America and beyond. The journal continues VAF’s tradition of scholarly publication going back to the first Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture in 1982. Published through the University of Minnesota Press since 2007, the journal moved from one to two issues per year in 2009. Buildings & Landscapes examines the places that people build and experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. The journal’s contributorsundefinedhistorians and architectural historians, preservationists and architects, geographers, anthropologists and folklorists, and others whose work involves documenting, analyzing, and interpreting vernacular formsundefinedapproach the built environment as a windows into human life and culture, basing their scholarship on both fieldwork and archival research. The editors encourage submission of articles that explore the ways the built environment shapes everyday life within and beyond North America.