Why preservation matters
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more(...)
Why preservation matters
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more progressive future. Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role in building more-just communities, it must transform itself to stand against gentrification, work more closely with the environmental sustainability movement, and challenge societies to confront their pasts. Touching on the history of the preservation movement in the United States and ranging the world, Page searches for inspiration on how to rejuvenate historic preservation for the next fifty years. This illuminating work will be widely read by urban planners, historians, and anyone with a stake in the past.
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Historian Max Page argues that New York City, at the early part of the 20th century, was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding. He examines the dichotomies inherent in the label "creative destruction", itself an oxymoron of sorts. The book is well illustrated with vintage photographs, drawings, and paintings.
The creative destruction of Manhattan 1900-1940
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Historian Max Page argues that New York City, at the early part of the 20th century, was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding. He examines the dichotomies inherent in the label "creative destruction", itself an oxymoron of sorts. The book is well illustrated with vintage photographs, drawings, and paintings.
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November 1999, Chicago
Urban Theory
The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean?(...)
The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.
Urban Theory
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In this volume, some of the most important figures in the field have come together to write on preservation movements across the country. "Giving Preservation a History" also touches on the European roots of the historic preservation movement; on how preservation movements have taken a leading role in shaping American urban space and urban development; how historic(...)
December 2003, New York
Giving preservation a history : histories of historic preservation in the United States
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In this volume, some of the most important figures in the field have come together to write on preservation movements across the country. "Giving Preservation a History" also touches on the European roots of the historic preservation movement; on how preservation movements have taken a leading role in shaping American urban space and urban development; how historic preservation battles have reflected broader social forces; and what the changing nature of historic preservation means for the effort to preserve the nation's past.