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- Release Year
- 2019
- Book Title
- Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation (Readings in Con...
- ISBN
- 9781606065938
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Getty Publications
ISBN-10
1606065939
ISBN-13
9781606065938
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038583547
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
632 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Historic Cities : Issues in Urban Conservation
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Urban & Land Use Planning, Historiography, Historic Preservation / General, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, History
Series
Readings in Conservation Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
66.2 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-042061
Reviews
"An extraordinarily useful collection of essays on urban history and morphology that provides insights into the complexity of the ongoing discourse on the interpretation, evaluation, protection, and augmentation of historic settlements throughout the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the present and future of our urban environments." --William Chapman, Dean, School of Architecture, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, It is well worth the effort to take the time to savor the prose, learn from the graphic examples, and determine how to take the lessons implied by the book and apply them to actual challenges. In our post-Covid world, with so many unknown changes to come in historic cities worldwide, this book's importance and significance is even more critical than it was, before Covid-19 came into our lives, when Cody and Siravo assembled such a stimulating cluster of readings, comments on those readings, and images that complement them., "This collection of international writings on urban history and conservation is an invaluable resource for students, teachers, professionals, activists--indeed, anyone interested in the care and future prospects of our historic cities and landscapes. The compilation in a single volume of such a wide-ranging (both temporally and geographically) selection of voices and issues, both familiar and unfamiliar, makes the book an indispensable companion to the urbanist or preservationist. Readers will appreciate the sensible thematic format, informative editorial comments, and illustrations as much as the historic texts themselves. " --Steven W. Semes, Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, Successfully bringing together a wide selection of papers and extracts of papers across cultures, geographies and time. . . . This format makes for an impressive assembly of readings, a compactum as it were, as an essential reference resource on this broad but less appreciated conservation topic., This book is an excellent primer for historic preservationists interested or involved in urban conservation and is probably most useful in an academic setting., Historic cities under pressure to accommodate development are the arenas within which these debates will be settled. Has conservation reached its highwater mark and will other interests hold sway in future decisions? The readings in Cody and Siravo's masterly survey do not provide easy answers, but they certainly equip the reader with the right questions--and with the necessary understanding., "Historic cities must confront tremendous changes day-to-day. There is nothing comparable in the published literature to this new, inspiring and instructive book on urban conservation of historic cities, an anthology of most important historical and modern texts on all relevant subjects and topics of historic towns and settlememts. This book is useful and enriching for a wide-range of professionals, including architects, landscape architects, urban planners, archaeologists, anthropologists, conservationists, historians, teachers, building administrators and students." --Dr.-Ing. Claus-Peter Echter, President at ISC CIVVIH ICOMOS (International Scientific Committee on Historic Towns and Villages), Historic Cities is enjoyable and informative reading, with plenty of great illustrations. It is an important resource for anyone interested or engaged in historic cities, their conservation and management., "I am thrilled to be included in the collection, Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation , recently published by the Getty Conservation Institute. The book is a fantastic introduction to the evolution of the management of historic cities and includes both established contributors as well as lesser-known, but no less valuable contributors... Text selection is not always easy but the editors have made excellent choices taking into consideration a variety of factors...I am sure it will become an attractive resource to seasoned experts, and as well as those new who are new to the field." --Jukka Jokilehto, Special Advisor to the Director General of ICCROM
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.6/9
Synopsis
This new volume in the GCI's Readings in Conservation series brings together a selection of seminal writings on the conservation of historic cities. This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning; despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organized into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values, and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, ranging from early polemics by Victor Hugo and John Ruskin to a generous selection of recent scholarship, this book thoroughly addresses regions around the globe. Each reading is introduced by short prefatory remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered. The book will serve as an easy reference for administrators, professionals, teachers, and students faced with the day-to-day challenges confronting the historic city under siege by rampant development., The book will serve as an easy reference for administrators, professionals, teachers, and students faced with the day-to-day challenges confronting the historic city under siege by rampant development. This new volume in the GCI's Readings in Conservation series brings together a selection of seminal writings on the conservation of historic cities. This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning; despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organized into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values, and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, ranging from early polemics by Victor Hugo and John Ruskin to a generous selection of recent scholarship, this book thoroughly addresses regions around the globe. Each reading is introduced by short prefatory remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered., This new volume in the GCI's Readings in Conservation series brings together a selection of seminal writings on the conservation of historic cities.
LC Classification Number
CC135.H469 2019
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