- "An endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve, and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance."
The conservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of historic buildings and districts, and the integration of historic preservation into urban design and planning.
History and Theory of Historic Preservation: Understanding the principles, philosophies and policies that govern historic preservation practices and policies.
Urban Design and Planning: Fundamental concepts of urban design and planning and their application to adapt and reuse historic properties.
Cultural Heritage and Significance: Identifying and assessing the historical and cultural significance of a property and its components.
Documentation and Recording: Recording and documenting cultural resources like historic structures, buildings, and landscapes; and how to conduct archaeological investigations.
Architectural Character Defining Features: Identifying the character-defining features of historic properties, including their form, materials, and detailing.
Materials and Methods of Construction: Tracing the history and evolution of building materials and construction technologies, and how they affect preservation.
Preservation Ethics and Standards: Understanding the ethical and legal implications of historic preservation, including standards for rehabilitation.
Cultural Resource Management: Managing historical and cultural resources in federal, state, and local settings including cultural resource management plans and archaeological investigations.
Preservation Laws and Regulations: Understanding the legal and regulatory framework governing preservation practices in the United States and internationally.
Adaptive Reuse Strategies: Techniques and strategies for repurposing historic buildings for new uses that respect the integrity and character of the original structure.
Sustainability: Incorporating sustainable practices into preservation and adaptive reuse projects such as energy-efficient HVAC systems and stormwater management plans.
Financial Incentives and Fundraising: Identifying potential funding sources and incentives available for preservation and adaptive reuse projects, including tax credits and grants.
Community Planning and Engagement: Engaging communities in the preservation and adaptive reuse of historic properties, including public participation and education.
Heritage Tourism: Understanding the potential benefits and challenges of promoting historic preservation and adaptive reuse as a tool for heritage tourism.
Tax Incentives: Understanding the economic incentives, such as tax credits, available to developers for adaptive reuse of historic properties.
Preservation: This involves maintaining the historic structure or building as closely as possible to the original design, with minimal changes to its original features and materials.
Restoration: Similar to preservation, restoration involves the repair and replacement of damaged or missing parts of an original structure, often using original materials and techniques.
Reconstruction: Reconstruction entails recreating a historic structure based on historical records, photographs, and other sources of information.
Rehabilitation: This involves the adaptive use of a historic building to meet modern needs while still maintaining its historical character and significance.
Adaptive Reuse: A term used to describe the conversion of a historic building for a new use or function, while retaining its historic character and significance.
Renovation: Renovation often involves modernizing a historic building's interior and adapting it to meet contemporary standards, while maintaining its historical character on the exterior.
Revitalization: Revitalization aims to renew and improve historic structures and neighborhoods by encouraging investment, economic development, and improved livability.
Conservation: Conservation involves the careful management, protection, and preservation of historic buildings and cultural heritage sites, often in collaboration with local communities.
Reconstruction: Reconstruction entails recreating a historic structure based on historical records, photographs, and other sources of information.
Reinterpretation: Reinterpretation involves the transformation of a historic site or building to tell a new story or to exhibit a new function, while still respecting its historical context and meaning.
- "Buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance."
- "Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK)."
- "It is a philosophical concept that became popular in the twentieth century."
- "Maintains that cities as products of centuries' development should be obligated to protect their patrimonial legacy."
- "The preservation of the built environment."
- "Preservation of the built environment, and not to preservation of, for example, primeval forests or wilderness."
- "Preserve, conserve, and protect buildings... of historical significance."
- "Buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance."
- "Cities as products of centuries' development should be obligated to protect their patrimonial legacy."
- "The preservation of the built environment."
- "Built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK)."
- "Preservation of the built environment, and not to preservation of... primeval forests or wilderness."
- "An endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings... that became popular in the twentieth century."
- "Maintains that cities... should be obligated to protect their patrimonial legacy."
- "Preserve, conserve, and protect landscapes of historical significance."
- "Not to preservation... of primeval forests or wilderness."
- "Preserve, conserve, and protect... objects of historical significance."
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