Download or read book Landscapes Tempered with Heritage written by Jillian Miller and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collins Company, the nation's first axe factory, exemplified the rise and fall of Connecticut industry during its operation from 1826 until 1966. Collinsville survives as an intact one-company mill village within the Town of Canton despite pressures from the region's suburbanization, a shift in how people value natural resources, and the emergence of recreational and heritage tourism. This case study analyzes the context for the Company's formation, the history of its development, and the outcomes of its closure in order to inform recommendations for preservation. It delves into the barriers and opportunities small towns have in the conservation of character and the preservation of places. The loss of the Company threatened both the village's livelihood and its identity. Underutilized and decaying, the Collins Company factory forms a nostalgic aesthetic that contrasts with the vibrant riverfront, the historic downtown, and the revitalized Main Street. Collinsville's cultural landscapes remain virtually unprotected, minimally documented, threatened by redevelopment, and underutilized by the community. History and heritage are modern-day commodities and subject to the pressures of politics, popular culture, and the economy. Many municipalities do not recognize the didactic and social influences tourism places on planning, public services, and governance. Historic structures and landscapes embody different values depending on the manner of management and utilization. Buildings, once valued for their manufacturing adeptness and proximity rail lines, become obsolete as towns and cities change unless transferable uses for these resources are found. Landscapes are essential transcriptions of past cultures. Places of industrial heritage are threatened by misrepresentation, misinterpretation, and inauthentic manufacture of history. Like numerous other small towns, Canton needs to address the historic values imbedded in the Collinsville landscape and the economic values that drive development. Resources should be recognized for their functional, cultural, and transactional value; and for this, a cross-disciplinary approach to preservation is paramount. Collinsville's preservation requires identification and documentation. In particular, recommendations include an ethnographic study, an architectural survey of the factory complex, an update and expansion of the village's historic district, and a cultural landscape study. Lastly, the creation of a Collinsville Village Heritage Commission, tasked with developing preservation initiatives and community programs, could utilize potential hydroelectric generation revenue to fund village improvements. This thesis is divided into six components: the context for industry in northwest Connecticut, the history of the Collins Company, the role of the Town of Canton, the reincarnation of Collinsville as a place worth protecting, the conservation and development of Collinsville's resources, and the approach needed to inform preservation in Collinsville. A synthesis of context and outcome informs the precursory guide for cultural resource management. It offers a critical review of Connecticut's preservation initiatives and programs, and of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers program. Furthermore, the actionable items presented are pertinent and applicable to the preservation of mill-villages throughout the region.
Download or read book Landscape Materiality and Heritage written by Tim Edensor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a periodisation that solely considers its original meanings and uses. Narrating the shifting ways in which the Barochan Cross has been moved, utilised, cared for, interpreted, encountered, sensed, copied and appropriated allows for a sophisticated yet highly accessible discussion about its changing relationships with the physical and conceptual landscapes in which it has been situated. This book thus expands the ways in which landscape might be conceptualised, revealing how artefacts can inform future critical thinking about heritage and bringing an important contribution to theories about material culture and landscape.
Download or read book Heritage Landscapes written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the integration of cultural heritage into many landscapes it inhabits, the physical as well as historical, economic planning, governmental, political and social landscapes of our contemporary environment.
Download or read book World heritage cultural landscapes written by Ana Luengo and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landscapes of Privilege written by Nancy Duncan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.
Download or read book Managing the Historic Rural Landscape written by Jane Grenville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. The Issues in Heritage Management series is a joint venture between Routledge and English Heritage. It provides accessible, thought-provoking books on issues central to heritage management. Each book within the series is designed to provide a topical introduction to a key issue in heritage management for students in higher education and for heritage professionals. Rapid changes are taking place in countryside management today, making their impact on the historic landscape. In an accessible format, this volume examines the questions and conflicts that arise in Managing the Historic Rural Landscape. It is essential reading for students and professionals concerned with countryside management, in particular those involved with cultural landscapes and students of planning.
Download or read book Translating Southwestern Landscapes written by Audrey Goodman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western Literature Association’s Thomas J. Lyon Award Whether as tourist's paradise, countercultural destination, or site of native resistance, the American Southwest has functioned as an Anglo cultural fantasy for more than a century. In Translating Southwestern Landscapes, Audrey Goodman excavates this fantasy to show how the Southwest emerged as a symbolic space from 1880 through the early decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on sources as diverse as regional magazines and modernist novels, Pueblo portraits and New York exhibits, Goodman has crafted a wide-ranging history that explores the invention, translation, and representation of the Southwest. Its principal players include amateur ethnographer Charles Lummis, who conflated the critical work of cultural translation; pulp novelist Zane Grey, whose bestselling novels defined the social meanings of the modern West; fashionable translator Mary Austin, whose "re-expressions" of Indian song are contrasted with recent examples of ethnopoetics; and modernist author Willa Cather, who demonstrated an immaterial feeling for landscape from the Nebraska Plains to Acoma Pueblo. Goodman shows how these writers—as well as photographers such as Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, and Alex Harris—exhibit different phases of the struggle between an Anglo calling to document Native and Hispanic difference and America's larger drive toward imperial mastery. In critiquing photographic representations of the Southwest, she argues that commercial interests and eastern prejudices boiled down the experimental images of the late nineteenth century to a few visual myths: the persistence of wilderness, the innocence of early portraiture, and the purity of empty space. An ambitious synthesis of criticism and anthropology, art history and geopolitical theory, Translating Southwestern Landscapes names the defining contradictions of America's most recently invented cultural space. It shows us that the Southwest of these early visitors is the only Southwest most of us have ever known.
Download or read book Shared Landscapes written by Rodney Harrison and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heritage of the pastoral industry stands as an integral symbol of identity for rural communities - both black and white - in New South Wales. Modern changes in pastoral land management, infrastructure and technology, combined with broader land-use changes and increased community interest in the conservation and rehabilitation of former grazing lands, has meant that many former pastoral properties have been abandoned or acquired for other uses. Tracking the history of these land-use changes, "Shared Landscapes" presents new ways of understanding historic heritage in settler societies through cross-disciplinary case studies that examine the heritage of the pastoral industry in two national parks. Assessing its current state of interpretation and management in New South Wales, Rodney Harrison shows that pastoral heritage is more than just 'woolsheds and homesteads', the showpieces of white, male, settler-colonial economies. Pastoral heritage is the product of the mutual histories of Aboriginal and settler Australians. It is a form of heritage that is both in, and a part of the landscape. His 'archaeological' approach to the heritage of the pastoral industry involves both recording sites and revealing attachments to community heritage, demonstrating that writing shared histories and celebrating shared heritage has the creative power to reconcile Aboriginal and settler Australians in powerful and positive ways.
Download or read book Historic Preservation for Designers written by Peter B. Dedek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Preservation for Designers offers a comprehensive overview of historic preservation with a focus on historic interiors, historic building materials, and the adaptive reuse of interiors. This text includes a brief history of preservation in the United States, criteria to determine whether a building is historic, a discussion of preservation law, and how to document historic buildings with a focus on design and understanding functional and aesthetic requirements. The text explores issues including building restoration and rehabilitation standards, adaptive reuse principles,and codes and accessibility requirements. Designers will discover timely information on inspecting historic buildings to determine their age and condition as well as the growing relationship between historic preservation, green design, and the environment.
Download or read book Easy Access to Historic Landscapes written by Joan Hodson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heritage Landscape written by Maria Bogdani-Czepita and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landscape and Race in the United States written by Richard Schein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape and Race in the United States is the definitive volume on racialized landscapes in the United States. Edited by Richard Schein, each essay is grounded in a particular location but all of the essays are informed by the theoretical vision that the cultural landscapes of America are infused with race and America's racial divide. While featuring the black/white divide, the book also investigates other social landscapes including Chinatowns, Latino landscapes in the Southwest and white suburban landscapes. The essays are accessible and readable providing historical and contemporary coverage.
Download or read book Landscapes under Pressure written by Ludomir R. Lozny and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the newly emerging interest to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes. It points to the benefits of interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve an ecological approach with historical ecology, applied archaeology, and environmental planning.
Download or read book Heritage Under Pressure Threats and Solution written by Michael Dawson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage under Pressure examines the relationship between the political perspective of the UK government on 'soft power' and the globalising effect of projects carried out by archaeologists and heritage professionals working in the historic environment. It exemplifies the nature of professional engagement and the role of the profession in working towards a theory of practice based on the integrity of data, the recovery and communication of information, and the application of data in real world situations. Individual papers raise complex and challenging issues, such as commemoration, identity, and political intervention. A further aim of the volume is to illustrate the role of professionals adhering to standards forged in the UK, in the context of world heritage under pressure. Papers also contribute to the emerging agenda developing as a result of the re-orientation of the UK following the Brexit vote, at once emphasising the global aspiration of the Uk’s professional archaeological body – the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists – in relation to the global reach of UK academic practice. By implication the volume also addresses the relationship between professional practice and academic endeavour. The volume as a whole contributes to the emerging debate on the authorised heritage discourse and provides an agenda for the future of the profession.
Download or read book Landscapes of Slavery in Africa written by Lydia Wilson Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery was a large-scale process that put its mark on the African landscape in tangible ways—for example, through the capture, transfer, and imprisonment of captives and through the avoidance strategies that vulnerable communities used against slaving. Certainly, the expansion of trade routes, the depopulation of slaved regions, and an increased reliance on defensive architecture and places of concealment can all be linked to slaving and slavery in Africa. But how do we view these landscapes of slavery today? And can archaeology help us? Encompassing studies from Senegal, Ghana, Mauritius, Tanzania, and Kenya, this volume grapples with such essential questions. The authors advocate for the power of archaeology as a tool to disentangle often lengthy and complex landscape histories that both begin before slavery and continue after abolition. They also argue for archaeologists’ central role in reimagining how we might remember and commemorate slavery in places where its history has been forgotten, obscured by European colonialism, or sanitized and simplified for tourist consumption. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage.
Download or read book Landscapes Revealed written by Amanda Brend and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesise the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artefact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.
Download or read book Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability written by Diane Barthel-Bouchier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major work to analyze the heritage and sustainability, this global, comparative study examines both direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, as well as issues of social and economic inequality faced by local, national, and international cultural organizations.
