John H Sprinkle

Saving Spaces

Historic Land Conservation in the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Saving Spaces introduces the ways Americans have tried to conserve individual parcels of land as well as entire landscapes from destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138888661
• ISBN-10: 1138888664
• Artikelnr.: 53455690

Autorenporträt

John H. Sprinkle Jr. is an historian with the National Park Service and an Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How will they know it was us?
Chapter 1: From Period Rooms to Large Landscapes
Chapter 2: Valuing Vision
Chapter 3: San Francisco Surplus
Chapter 4: Open Space for Urban America
Chapter 5: The Recreation Movement
Chapter 6: Easements
Chapter 7: Conservation and Preservation
Appendices
2.1 Frances Bolton's Remarks at the White House Conference on Natural
Beauty, 1965
3.1 Criteria for Evaluation of Surplus Federal Historical Properties, 1948
4.1 Criteria for Evaluating Historic Properties, 1961
4.2 Historic Preservation within Urban Renewal Projects 1961-1965
4.3 Urban Renewal for Historic Areas: Some Suggestions toward Getting Good
Results, 1962
4.4 The Historic Community, 1959
5.1 An $11 Billion Memo, 1962
5.2 Bureau of Outdoor Recreation land classification system, 1965
5.3 National Natural Landmarks Program, 1965
7.1 Conservation by Preservation of Our Heritage