Protecting suburban America : gentrification, advocacy and the historic imaginary /

Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America. Bridging architecture, anthropology, planning, and urban studies, its unique approach combines a study of historic preservation with multi-sited ethnograp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lawrence-Zúñiga, Denise (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Temas:
Suburban homes > Conservation and restoration > Social aspects > United States.
Historic preservation > Social aspects > United States.
Architecture > Human factors > United States.
Sociology, Urban > United States.
Préservation historique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Architecture > Facteurs humains > États-Unis.
Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis.
Urban communities.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > Historic Preservation > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
Architecture > Human factors.
Historic preservation > Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FC ; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Framing Preservation; 2 Discovering Material Agency: Making the Preservation Homeowner; 3 Restoration Strategies, Imagining the Past, and Reconstructing Historic Meaning; 4 Historic Preservation as Cosmology: Municipal Regulations and City Dynamics; 5 Local Level Preservation and Exclusion: Traditional Elites; 6 The Gentry Move In: Education, Reform, and Advocacy; 7 Immigrant Challenges: Communicating Preservation Values across the Cultural Divide in Alhambra.
  • 8 Toward an Anthropology of the Protected SuburbAppendix A: Historic Preservation Interview Questions; Appendix B: Historic Preservation Questions for City Officials; Notes; References; Index.

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