A Future Preserved

Author : Max Page,Marla R. Miller
Publisher : Public History in Historical P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1625342152

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Bending the Future by Max Page,Marla R. Miller Pdf

"The year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the National Register of Historic Places, a national system of state preservation offices and local commissions, set up federal partnerships between states and tribes, and led to the formation of the standards for preservation and rehabilitation of historic structures. This book marks its fiftieth anniversary by collecting fifty new and provocative essays that chart the future of preservation. The commentators include leading preservation professionals, historians, writers, activists, journalists, architects, and urbanists. The essays offer a distinct vision for the future and address related questions, including: Who is a preservationist? What should be preserved? Why? How? What stories do we tell in preservation? How does preservation contribute to the financial, environmental, social, and cultural well-being of communities? And if the 'arc of the moral universe...bends towards justice,' how can preservation be a tool for achieving a more just society and world?"--Provided by publishe

Author : Paige Cooper
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771962186

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Zolitude by Paige Cooper Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh—these are the women in Paige Cooper’s debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won’t arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blasé about sex but beggared by love—while the police horses have talons and vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap cigarettes and mail bombs—Cooper finds the beautiful and the disturbing in both the surreal and the everyday. Troubling, carnal, and haunting, these stories are otherworldly travelogues through banal, eco-fabulist dystopias. Zolitude is a gorgeous, sad, and sexy work of slipstream and an atlas of fantastic isolation. The monstrous is human here, and tender.

Author : Vincent Martinet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415544771

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Economic Theory and Sustainable Development by Vincent Martinet Pdf

This work examines the different ways in which the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development are interpreted in economics. As well as the oft-studied neoclassical take on matters, the author develops new approaches that are less reliant on utilitarianism and discounting.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
ISBN : UCAL:$B643745

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Preserving the Future of Long Island Sound by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research Pdf

Author : Stephanie Meeks,Kevin C. Murphy
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917094

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The Past and Future City by Stephanie Meeks,Kevin C. Murphy Pdf

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.

Author : Abby Smith Rumsey,Abby Smith,Council on Library and Information Resources. Commission on Preservation and Access
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Council on Library and Infomation Resources
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015049670287

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The Future of the Past by Abby Smith Rumsey,Abby Smith,Council on Library and Information Resources. Commission on Preservation and Access Pdf

This report summarizes the challenges and accomplishments in preservation efforts since the early 1960s. The paper gives an overview of the preservation and management of research collections and describes the context in which decisions are made by researchers and librarians about what to preserve and how. By examining how librarians and scholars grappled with the first great crisis in the preservation of library materials--the pandemic loss of information printed on embrittled acid paper--it traces the development of the current consensus on how to manage large collections recorded on many media of varying stability. Highlights include permanent paper, paper deacidification, the rationale for reformatting, the scope of the problem, and local responsibilities vs. national priorities. The need for a national preservation plan is discussed, as well as selection of materials for the national plan and the role of scholars in selection. The paper also addresses the problem that, despite striking progress made in preservation technology and management, the difficulties of preserving original library materials have scarcely diminished over time and demand the same thoughtful cooperation between scholars and librarians as they enter the 21st century as the brittle-book problem received in the 1980s. (AEF)

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123453487

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Preserving the Past to Protect the Future by United States. National Archives and Records Administration Pdf

Author : Jeremy Myntti,Jessalyn Zoom
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838917138

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Digital Preservation in Libraries by Jeremy Myntti,Jessalyn Zoom Pdf

In today’s information landscape, there are fewer topics that more urgently demand expansive discourse than digital preservation, which touches on everything from technology to copyright. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) steps up to the challenge with this comprehensive overview. Global in scope, it features case studies and contributions that discuss such key issues as the history of digital preservation; digital preservation and information ethics; strategies for getting started, sustaining digitization programs, and performing evaluation; fine-tuning digital preservation workflows, with a look at Digital Streams Matrix for analyzing pathways and tasks; preserving e-books, mobile device data, and other specific types of materials; collaborative efforts in digital preservation, including jargon-free techniques for engaging non-technical colleagues in digital legacy tools and processes; and the copyright, legal, and administrative issues connected with digital preservation. Academic librarians, technical services staff, technologists, and administrators will all benefit from this incisive collection.

Author : Martin Paul Eve,Jonathan Gray
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262362863

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Reassembling Scholarly Communications by Martin Paul Eve,Jonathan Gray Pdf

A range of perspectives on the complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications of opening research and scholarship through digital technologies. The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-reviewed research work--to use the power of the internet to duplicate material at an infinitesimal cost-per-copy. In this volume, contributors show that open access does not exist in a technological vacuum; there are complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications for opening research through digital technologies. The contributors examine open access across spans of colonial legacies, knowledge frameworks, publics and politics, archives and digital preservation, infrastructures and platforms, and global communities.

Author : Ned Kaufman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135889722

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Place, Race, and Story by Ned Kaufman Pdf

In Place, Race, and Story, author Ned Kaufman has collected his own essays dedicated to the proposition of giving the next generation of preservationists not only a foundational knowledge of the field of study, but more ideas on where they can take it. Through both big-picture essays considering preservation across time, and descriptions of work on specific sites, the essays in this collection trace the themes of place, race, and story in ways that raise questions, stimulate discussion, and offer a different perspective on these common ideas. Including unpublished essays as well as established works by the author, Place, Race, and Story provides a new outline for a progressive preservation movement – the revitalized movement for social progress.

Author : Sarah A. Chrisman
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781510700734

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This Victorian Life by Sarah A. Chrisman Pdf

Part memoir, part micro-history, this is an exploration of the present through the lens of the past. We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world? From Victorian beauty regimes to nineteenth-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the twenty-first century. Most of us have dreamed of time travel, but what if that dream could come true? Certain universal constants remain steady for all people regardless of time or place. No matter where, when, or who we are, humans share similar passions and fears, joys and triumphs. In her first book, Victorian Secrets, Chrisman recalled the first year she spent wearing a Victorian corset 24/7. In This Victorian Life, Chrisman picks up where Secrets left off and documents her complete shift into living as though she were in the nineteenth century.

Author : Gordon Andrews,Wilson J. Warren,James Cousins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317859420

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Collaboration and the Future of Education by Gordon Andrews,Wilson J. Warren,James Cousins Pdf

Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher Curriculum Institute’s History Alive! and completely online curricula. They include the jargon of authentic methods, such as primary sources, cooperative learning, differentiated instruction, and access to technology; yet the craft of teaching is removed, and an experience that should be marked by discovery and reflection is replaced with comparatively empty processes. This volume provides systematic models and examples of ways that history teachers can compete with and effectively halt this transformation. The alternatives the authors present are based on collaborative models that address the art of teaching for pre-service and practicing secondary history teachers as well as collegiate history educators. Relying on original research, and a maturing body of secondary literature on historical thinking, this book illuminates how collaboration can create real historical learning.

Author : Wayne J. Caldwell,Stew Hilts,Bronwynne Wilton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780887555183

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Farmland Preservation by Wayne J. Caldwell,Stew Hilts,Bronwynne Wilton Pdf

As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. Farmland preservation speaks to the need to preserve the agricultural land base for future generations. The need for protection is driven by uncertainty caused by climate change, population growth, food security, energy availability, and other local and global factors. This uncertainty means that there is an ever-growing responsibility to ensure that the actions of today do not compromise the needs of future generations. This second edition of "Farmland Preservation" provides a range of views and case studies from across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Its fourteen essays are intended to help the reader understand the importance of the issue and the potential for applying new approaches to agricultural protection, policy tools, and initiatives.

Author : Yefime Zarjevski
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0080349781

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A Future Preserved by Yefime Zarjevski Pdf

Author : Roger Miles,Lauro Zavala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134867615

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Towards the Museum of the Future by Roger Miles,Lauro Zavala Pdf

Towards the Museum of the Future explores, through a series of authoritative essays, some of the major developments in European museums as they struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It embraces a wide range of European countries, all types of museums and exhibitions and the needs of different museum audiences, and discusses the museum as communicator and educator in the context of current cultural concerns.