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The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and
Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society,
and the ways we might preserve and conserve it. Drawing on
contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and
comprising six sections, this volume carries the heritage discourse
forward by exploring the complex and sometimes intricate place of
automobiles within society. Taken as a whole, this book helps to
shape how we think about automobile heritage and considers how that
heritage explores a range of cultural, intellectual, emotional, and
material elements well outside of the automobile body itself. Most
importantly, perhaps, it questions how we might better acknowledge
the importance of automotive heritage now and in the future. The
Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and
Preservation is unique in that it juxtaposes theory with practice,
academic approaches with practical experience, and recognizes that
issues of preservation and conservation belong in a broad context.
As such, this volume should be essential reading for both academics
and practitioners with an interest in automobiles, cultural
heritage, and preservation.
Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses
the question of how a human-centred conservation approach can and
should change practice. For the most part, there are few answers to
this question because professionals in the heritage conservation
field do not use social science research methodologies to manage
cultural landscapes, assess historical significance and inform the
treatment of building and landscape fabric. With few exceptions,
only academic theorists have explored these topics while failing to
offer specific, usable guidance on how the social sciences can
actually be used by heritage professionals. In exploring the nature
of a human-centred heritage conservation practice, we explicitly
seek a middle ground between the academy and practice, theory and
application, fabric and meanings, conventional and civil experts,
and orthodox and heterodox ideas behind practice and research. We
do this by positioning this book in a transdisciplinary space
between these dichotomies as a way to give voice (and respect) to
multiple perspectives without losing sight of our goal that
heritage conservation practice should, fundamentally, benefit all
people. We believe that this approach is essential for creating an
emancipated built heritage conservation practice that must
successfully engage very different ontological and epistemological
perspectives.
This book brings together ecological-conservation theory and
heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have
common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative
examples, Sustainable Heritage reframes the history of multiple
movements within preservation and sustainable-design strategies
into cross-disciplinary themes. Through topics such as Cultural
Relationships with Nature, Ecology, Biodiversity, Energy, and
Resource Systems; Integrating Biodiversity into the Built
Environment Rehabilitation Practice; Fixing the Shortcomings Within
Community Design, Planning, and Policy; Strategies for Adapting
Buildings and Structures for Rising Sea Levels; and Vehicles as a
Microcosm of Approaching Built Environment Rehabilitation, the book
explores contemporary ecological and heritage ethics as a strategy
for improving the livability of the built environment. The authors
provide a holistic critique of the challenges we face in light of
climate and cultural changes occurring from the local to the global
level. It synthesizes the best practices offered by separate
disciplines as one cohesive way forward toward sustainable design.
The authors consider strategies for increasing the physical and
cultural longevity of the built environment, why these two are so
closely paired, and the potential their overlap offers for
sustained and meaningful inhabitation. Sustainable Heritage unites
students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines with one
common language and more closely aligned sets of objectives for
preservation and sustainable design.
Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic
governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of
synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects.
Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious
architecture that this era produced.
Before the mid fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic
governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of
synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects.
Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious
architecture that this era produced.
The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and
Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society,
and the ways we might preserve and conserve it. Drawing on
contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and
comprising six sections, this volume carries the heritage discourse
forward by exploring the complex and sometimes intricate place of
automobiles within society. Taken as a whole, this book helps to
shape how we think about automobile heritage and considers how that
heritage explores a range of cultural, intellectual, emotional, and
material elements well outside of the automobile body itself. Most
importantly, perhaps, it questions how we might better acknowledge
the importance of automotive heritage now and in the future. The
Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and
Preservation is unique in that it juxtaposes theory with practice,
academic approaches with practical experience, and recognizes that
issues of preservation and conservation belong in a broad context.
As such, this volume should be essential reading for both academics
and practitioners with an interest in automobiles, cultural
heritage, and preservation.
Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses
the question of how a human-centred conservation approach can and
should change practice. For the most part, there are few answers to
this question because professionals in the heritage conservation
field do not use social science research methodologies to manage
cultural landscapes, assess historical significance and inform the
treatment of building and landscape fabric. With few exceptions,
only academic theorists have explored these topics while failing to
offer specific, usable guidance on how the social sciences can
actually be used by heritage professionals. In exploring the nature
of a human-centred heritage conservation practice, we explicitly
seek a middle ground between the academy and practice, theory and
application, fabric and meanings, conventional and civil experts,
and orthodox and heterodox ideas behind practice and research. We
do this by positioning this book in a transdisciplinary space
between these dichotomies as a way to give voice (and respect) to
multiple perspectives without losing sight of our goal that
heritage conservation practice should, fundamentally, benefit all
people. We believe that this approach is essential for creating an
emancipated built heritage conservation practice that must
successfully engage very different ontological and epistemological
perspectives.
This book brings together ecological-conservation theory and
heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have
common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative
examples, Sustainable Heritage reframes the history of multiple
movements within preservation and sustainable-design strategies
into cross-disciplinary themes. Through topics such as Cultural
Relationships with Nature, Ecology, Biodiversity, Energy, and
Resource Systems; Integrating Biodiversity into the Built
Environment Rehabilitation Practice; Fixing the Shortcomings Within
Community Design, Planning, and Policy; Strategies for Adapting
Buildings and Structures for Rising Sea Levels; and Vehicles as a
Microcosm of Approaching Built Environment Rehabilitation, the book
explores contemporary ecological and heritage ethics as a strategy
for improving the livability of the built environment. The authors
provide a holistic critique of the challenges we face in light of
climate and cultural changes occurring from the local to the global
level. It synthesizes the best practices offered by separate
disciplines as one cohesive way forward toward sustainable design.
The authors consider strategies for increasing the physical and
cultural longevity of the built environment, why these two are so
closely paired, and the potential their overlap offers for
sustained and meaningful inhabitation. Sustainable Heritage unites
students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines with one
common language and more closely aligned sets of objectives for
preservation and sustainable design.
Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes is an interdisciplinary
collaboration of Canadian and American Jewish studies scholars who
compare and contrast the experience of Jews along the chronological
spectrum (ca. 1763 to the present) in their respective countries.
Of particular interest to them is determining the factors that
shaped the Jewish communities on either side of our common border,
and why they differed. This collection equips Canadian and American
Jewish historians to broaden their examination and ask new
questions, as well as answer old questions based on fresh
comparative data.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
sixth volume investigates the treatment of tangible and intangible
heritage sites created before the advent of nation states and in
spaces that are not under the control of nation states. Chapters
discuss the appropriation of heritage sites that originated in the
era of the Crusades by modern nation states, the lack of national
appropriation in the case of transnational sealing sites in
Antarctica, the process of recognizing transnational heritage sites
in the case of assembly halls created by the transnational labor
movement, and the treatment of potential heritage sites in outer
space.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
third volume is dedicated to the transnational turn in urban
history. It brings together articles that investigate the
transnational and transatlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts for
urban planning, architecture, and technology that served to
modernize cities across East and Central Europe and the United
States. This collection includes studies about regionals fairs as
centers of knowledge transfer in Eastern Europe, about the transfer
of city planning among developing urban centers within the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, about the introduction of the Bauhaus into
American society, and about the movement for constructing paved
roads to connect cities on a global scale. The volume concludes
with a historiographical article that discusses the potential of
the transnational perspective to urban history. The articles in
this volume highlight the movement of ideas and practices across
various cultures and societies and explore the relations,
connections, and spaces created by these movements. The articles
show that modern cities across the European continent and North
America emerged from intensive exchanges of ideas for almost every
aspect of modern urban life.
Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a unique blend of
cultural and architectural history that considers Jewish heritage
as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the
Atlantic Ocean between the mid-fifteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful synthesis of
material culture research and traditional historical research in
his examination of the early modern Jewish diaspora in the New
World.
Through this generously illustrated work, Stiefel examines
forty-six synagogues built in Europe, South America, the Caribbean
Islands, colonial and antebellum North America, and Gibraltar to
discover what liturgies, construction methods, and architectural
styles were transported from the Old World to the New World. Some
are famous--Touro in Newport, Rhode Island; Bevis Marks in London;
and Mikve Israel in Curacao--while others had short-lived
congregations whose buildings were lost. The two great traditions
of Judaism--Sephardic and Ashkenazic--found homes in the Atlantic
World.
Examining buildings and congregations that survive, Stiefel offers
valuable insights on their connections and commonalities. If both
the congregations and buildings are gone, the author re-creates
them by using modern heritage preservation tools that have expanded
the heuristic repertoire, tools from such diverse sources as
architectural studies, archaeology, computer modeling and
rendering, and geographic information systems. When combined these
bring a richer understanding of the past than incomplete, uncertain
traditional historical resources. Buildings figure as key
indicators in Stiefel's analysis of Jewish life and social
experience, while the author's immersion in the faith and practice
of Judaism invigorates every aspect of his work.
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Over the past twenty years, there has been a fundamental shift in
the institutional organization of historic preservation education.
Historic preservation is the most recent arrival in the collection
of built environment disciplines and therefore lacks the
pedagogical depth and breadth found in allied endeavors such as
architecture and planning. As the first degree programs in
preservation only date to the 1970s and the first doctoral programs
to the 1990s, new faculty are confronted with pedagogical
challenges that are unique to this relatively nascent field. Based
on a conference that included educators from around the world,
Barry L. Stiefel and Jeremy C. Wells now present a collection that
seeks to address fundamental issues of preservation pedagogy,
outcome-based education and assessment, and global issues of
authenticity and significance in historic preservation. The editors
argue that the subject of the analysis has shifted from, "What is
the best way to fix a historic building?" to, "What are the best
ways for teaching people how to preserve historic properties (and
why) according to the various standards that have been
established?"
This important reconsideration of the state of the field in
historic preservation education will appeal to a broad audience
across numerous disciplines.
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