Main entry:

Conference on Cultural Preservation (1984 : Washington, D.C.)

Title & Author:

The Challenge to our cultural heritage : why preserve the past? : proceedings of a Conference on Cultural Preservation, Washington, D.C., 8-10 April, 1984 / edited by Yudhishthir Raj Isar ; co-sponsored by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

Description:

252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Is there a collision course between preservation and modernization? -- Collision course : heritage preservation versus the demands of modernization / Yudhishthir Raj Isar -- Preservation versus modernization : realities in Islamic architecture / Ronald Lewcock -- Challenges to heritage preservation in industrially developed countries / Bernard M. Feilden -- Mobilizing resources for preservation -- International assistance for the conservation of cultural property / Hiroshi Daifuku -- Financing the adaptive reuse of culturally significant areas / Ismail Serageldin -- Harnessing science and technology : realities and paradoxes -- Science and technology in architectural conservation : examples from Nepal and Bangladesh / John Sanday -- Saving Indonesia's Borobudur : a high-tech triumph in international cooperation / W. Brown Morton III -- Science and technology in architectural restoration : an American perspective / Maximilian L. Ferro -- ICCROM : an international clearinghouse and training centre / Cevat Erder -- Evolving concepts and practices -- Architectural conservation : the triumph of an idea / Stephan Tschudi-Madsen -- The common heritage of the Americas : regional cooperation / Roberto Etchepareborda -- Historic preservation in the United States : a historical perspective -- The preservation of Haiti's national heritage / Albert Mangons -- The press and cultural heriatge preservation : a Canadian perspective / Andrée G. Paradis -- The Canadian experience in heriatge preservation / Jacques Dalibard -- Facing the challenge : the monumental heritage of Egypt / Gamal Mokhtar -- The scourge of illicit traffic in cultural property -- A threat to national art treasures : the illicit traffic in stolen art / Ekpo Okpo Eyo -- National legislation to encourage international cooperation : the cultural property export and import act of Canada / Ian C. Clark and Lewis E. Levy.

ISBN:

0874745438 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874745436 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9231023705
9789231023705

Subject:

Historic sites Conservation and restoration Congresses.
Cultural property Protection Congresses.
Architecture Conservation and restoration Congresses.
Historic preservation Congresses.
Lieux historiques Conservation et restauration Congrès.
Patrimoine culturel Protection Congrès.
Architecture Conservation et restauration Congrès.
Préservation historique Congrès.
Architecture Conservation and restoration
Cultural property Protection
Historic preservation
Historic sites Conservation and restoration
Denkmalschutz
Kulturgüterschutz
Kongress
Historical preservation

Form/genre:

Kongress Washington (DC) 1984.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Isar, Yudhishthir Raj.
Unesco.
Smithsonian Institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19310
Call No.: ID:87-B6512
Status: Available