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Bookmark or Share- How Historic Preservation Shaped the Early United States | History ...What makes the history of “preservation” so compelling? We might think historic preservation is about stopping time, freezing something in the past. But in fact, historic preservation today,...
- Six Essential Reasons to Save Old Places1. Save Old Places to Save the Planet. Often when climate disasters strike, preservationists are on the front lines, not only as communities react and recover, but also to identify and implement strategies that encourage a community’s ability to be prepared for these events.
- Why Preserving Historical Places and Sites Matters | History News NetworkThere are many reasons old places matter, from memory, to civic identity, to history, to architecture, to beauty, to economics. While even the fourteen reasons I name in Why Old Places Matterdon...
- An Overview of Historic Preservation - ThoughtCoHistoric preservation is a movement in planning designed to conserve old buildings and areas in an effort to tie a place's history to its population and culture. It is also an essential component of green building in that it reuses structures that are already present as opposed to new construction.
- Preserving the Past | Perspectives on History | AHAPreserving the Past. James J. Sheehan | Apr 1, 2005. It is hard for us to imagine that the inhabitants of Rome once quarried the ruins of ancient temples for stones to build their houses or that German bureaucrats in the early 19th century used books taken from monastic libraries to pave their roads.
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