History / Preservation

San Francisco Landmark Is Reborn

San Francisco's overhauled Ferry Building stands "as grand as a cathedral" on the city's bayfront.

March 26, 2003 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Historic Preservation And The Creative Class

Historic preservation of the built environment is an overlooked, but critical component in the rise of a creative class.

March 24, 2003 - Planetizen

Baghdad And A New Paradigm For Urbanity

Bagdad is where the first city in history, the city of Ur, was built roughly 4 thousand years ago.

March 20, 2003 - KCRW

Digitally Recreating Ancient Buried Structures

A team from the University of Cincinnati is digitally recreating seventeen centuries old geometric structures.

March 19, 2003 - Wired

What Will Happen To Historic Preservation Tax Credits?

The White House's economic plan compromises the Historic Preservation Tax Credit program, writes Richard Moe in a WSJ editorial.

March 18, 2003 - Wall St. Journal

Tokyo's Secret Underground City

Seven riddles suggest that there is a secret city beneath Tokyo -- and a government plot to keep it secret.

March 18, 2003 - The Japan Times

White House Announces Historic Preservation Initiative

Text from First Lady Laura Bush's speech to the National Association of Counties.

March 7, 2003 - The White House

Economic Impacts Of Historic Preservation

Main Street programs typically return about $35 for every dollar invested in operating the program.

February 26, 2003 - Journal Record

The Lost City

A city frozen in time since the 1950s is threatened by developers. Architects and planners work to save priceless architecture and public spaces.

February 26, 2003 - The Washington Post

Historical Sites At Risk In The Event Of War

The cultural heritage of the region where urban life began 5,500 years ago is at risk in the event of a war in Iraq.

February 25, 2003 - The New York Times

Vinyl Just Isn't Good Enough

Circuit court sides with the municipality's not allowing vinyl siding on historic mansion

February 20, 2003 - Daily Herald

A Threat Comes To Pass

A landowner drops historic properties in a high-stakes gamble.

February 19, 2003 - Preservation Online

Abandoned Plans To Demolish Historic Buildings

Troy, N.Y. -- A drugstore chain is withdrawing its proposal to knock down two historic buildings for a new big-box store.

February 15, 2003 - Times Union

Housing Conversion In Downtown Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Conservancy finds 4,255 housing units are being developed in downtown's older and historic buildings, in at least 35 separate projects.

February 9, 2003 - Los Angeles Conservancy

Endangered Seattle

Historic preservation? It's just so yesterday.

February 3, 2003 - Seattle Weekly

Civil War V. Civic Good

Old and new clash on site proposed for development of a 24-story glass office tower. Several Civil War-era buildings will be razed if construction continues as planned.

January 31, 2003 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Fatal Flaw In Open Space Preservation

How long does land preservation really last? Should a dying man's will forever constrain his property?

January 28, 2003 - Richmond Times-Dispatch

When Historic Tax Incentives Are Misused

Columnist Steve Duin of The Oregonian follows the case of seemingly misused historic tax breaks in Portland.

January 20, 2003 - The Oregonian

PBS Airs Chicago: City Of The Century

City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive metropolis that was the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century.

January 20, 2003 - PBS

Community Meeting Leads Mayor To Rethink Street Closing

The Coalition to Free Chestnut Street met with the Mayor of Philadelphia persuading him to reconsider closing Chestnut Street, a major transit street, in front of Independence Hall as a post-9/11 security measure.

January 17, 2003 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

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