Preservation Advocacy & Marketing

Bridging the Divide between Preservation Advocacy & Public Perception

Michael Allen’s “The Pro-Development, Anti-Historic Preservationist” on the Next City web site is an insightful overview of the changing public perceptions of historic preservation, including how many people are doing “historic preservation,” but don’t associate themselves with the term or the movement. These individuals don’t join traditional historic preservation organizations, promote their activities, or even …

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How Conservation Social Science Can Inform Historic Preservation

One of the things I really love about the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is the multidisciplinary nature of their conference. It’s one of the few venues where it doesn’t really matter what your discipline is; instead, it’s the particular topics that people address that are most important. At the conference, it’s not unusual to …

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