Historic Preservation
Submitted by: HLHNCO
6 October 2007 - 12:51pm
I am looking for reading suggestions on the topic of historic preservation. I am looking for a good overview although with a focus on pricipals and practice rather than theory/history and something relatively current.
Thanks!
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Recommendations
Although there are many excellent books on the topic, you may consider starting here, for a more hands-on introduction:
Preservation Resources
Following are a variety of recommended local and national resources for expanding your research into the important field of historic preservation.
http://preservation.lacity.org/resources
Chris
Historic Preservation Reading
You may want to check out A Richer Heritage, edited by Robert Stipe. It is a collection of Preservation related essays that delves into the theory and history (which are more important than many initially think) but also the governmental framework in which preservation happen. In other words where the money comes from and how to get it.
It is definitely an invaluable resource on the topic. You can order it from Powell's just click the link below.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/72-9780807854518-0
If you're looking more for informaton about how to preserve structures, in the physical sense, you'll have to be more specific about the resource you're working with there's a lot of good information out there though. People have been fixing things for 100's of years.
Hope the Stipe reccomendation helps. It really cleared up a lot for me.
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Mike G aka fullerton