Comments on: Heritage Conservation, not Historic Preservation

By: Lessons from Buffalo « Time Tells

Lessons from Buffalo « Time Tells — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:13:22 +0000

[...] Don Rypkema said we need to start calling it heritage conservation. I echoed that point in a blog and an article in 2010. Words can be important. Moving to heritage conservation creates a deft [...]

By: National Preservation Conference Austin « Time Tells

National Preservation Conference Austin « Time Tells — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:45:56 +0000

[...] articles about the topic in Forum Journal this summer (you can see my original blog on the topic here.) State Capitol, Austin, [...]

By: duvic

duvic — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:05:24 +0000

Great post, I think you bring up an important point that many in our field seem to be ignoring these days. The connotations of preservation vs. conservation are often discussed in my classes and I worry that the education HP students are receiving in the states won’t translate well to other countries because of the difference. Preservation is a misnomer for sure!

By: bwchicago

bwchicago — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:30:32 +0000

And of course many of those communities were indeed independent suburbs that were annexed. Did they lose significance by being annexed? Of course not; that often-forgotten history is even more significant and demands preservation.

By: bwchicago

bwchicago — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:24:24 +0000

A shame, then, that Chicago really hasn’t done much in the way of approaching each neighborhood as a community in its own right with its own particular places. There are many places in Chicago’s neighborhoods, mostly places that get their virtually-worthless Orange or Red ratings, that would be instant landmarks if they were in suburbs. But because they have to measure up to places like the Auditorium, Rookery, or the Monadnock, they’re ignored. For example, there is nothing on Lawrence or North Avenues, and only the Lincoln-Diversey-Kimball district on Milwaukee, these are some of the biggest shopping streets with tons of distinctive architecture.

It almost seems like there should be an extra level of significance for large cities – National, State, Local, Community.