Buildings as History: The Place of Collective Memory in the Study of Historic Preservation

Milligan, Melinda J.

doi:10.1525/si.2007.30.1.105

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“…34 This opposition to change encourages the preservation of those they associate with ungentrified space. 30 See Barthel (1989: 91 & 92); Collins (1980: 86); Datel (1985: 128 & 129);Francaviglia (2000: 68); Lowenthal (1999: 389), Milligan (2007); O 'Laughlin and Munski (1979: 55); Schuyler and O'Donnell (2000: 76). 31 See also see also Barthel (1989: 87 & 101) and Lowenthal (1999: 393).…”

Section: The Real Peoplementioning

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Virtuous marginality: Social preservationists and the selection of the old-timer

Brown–Saracino

2007

Theor Soc

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Social preservation is a bundle of ethics and practices rooted in the desire of some people to live near old-timers, whom they associate with "authentic" community. To preserve authentic community, social preservationists, who tend to be highly educated and residentially mobile, work to limit old-timers' displacement by gentrification. However, they do not consider all original residents authentic. They work to preserve those they believe embody three claims to authentic community: independence, tradition, and a close relationship to place. Underlining their attraction to these characteristics are resistance to the evolution of neighborhoods and towns, and the notion that certain groups have a greater claim to authentic community than others. These beliefs, and, secondarily, local institutions and boosters, influence their preservation of certain groups. While the quest for the authentic is typically viewed as affirming the authenticity of its seekers, social preservationists measure the authenticity of others' communities against their own inauthenticity. That is, they are committed to virtuous marginality, which exists when people associate authenticity with, and highly value, characteristics they do not share, and consequently, out of a desire to preserve the authentic, come to regard their distance from it -their marginality -as virtuous. This article reveals the consequences of definitions of authenticity, and more generally of ideology, by demonstrating how they shape preservationists' lives, particularly their experience of community.In the 1990s, a few residents of Provincetown, Massachusetts, including a successful artist and a school administrator, met to establish a "cultural sanctuary" to preserve "a distinct mix of people and place, a peculiar cultural ecology." They wished to prevent the displacement of residents gentrification made vulnerable, and the "destruction" of local culture. However, implicit in their words about "a distinct mix of people" was concern for Theor Soc (2007) 36:

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Section: The Real Peoplementioning

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Virtuous marginality: Social preservationists and the selection of the old-timer

Brown–Saracino

2007

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“…Yet, according to the commission, despite national significance, years of “deterioration and decay [had] transformed the area into what may almost be termed a slum.” Moreover, “priceless Colonial and early national shrines are in a setting of decayed dwellings, shops, warehouses, obsolete buildings and parking lots” making it likely “that the decay will continue until the buildings are abandoned in large part or until the community takes radical action to altogether alter the character of the neighborhood” (Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission :vii–viii). By amplifying the importance of buildings as such (Milligan ), INHP project supporters successfully framed the redevelopment as essential to national and local identity.…”

Section: A New Old Philadelphiamentioning

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Architectures of Memory: When Growth Machines Embrace Preservationists

Loughran

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Hunter³

2018

Sociological Forum

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Studies of urban redevelopment demonstrate how growth coalitions and city residents use ideas about local history and culture to facilitate or oppose interventions in the built environment. Building on this literature, we introduce the concept of architectures of memory to describe methods of remaking urban space, relying on historical representations. We argue that preservation, demolition, and reproduction are practices that are often conflated but that have different dynamics in the relationship between growth and preservation. Although each advances urban planners’ visions of a historicized cityscape, they recapture that past through different design processes. Using case studies of redevelopment in Philadelphia—Independence National Historical Park and the adjacent Society Hill neighborhood, both of which were transformed through urban planning interventions post–World War II—we examine how interpretations of the built environment's economic and symbolic value influence redevelopment projects. The multiple interpretations and collective memories about the built environment create frameworks that advance, as well as contest, strategies of redevelopment. We argue that growth machines and preservationists do not inevitably have contradictory goals and strategies, but on occasion preservation and reworking of public spaces through a historical imaginary can support both growth and memory, two components of an urban elite.

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“…Paveldosauga įvairiose šalyse dažniausiai gimsta kaip visuomenės sąjūdis, bet sulaukusi pripažinimo ji tam pa profesionalų veiklos sritimi (Miligan 2007). Tačiau demokratinėse šalyse nepamirštama, kad visuomenė yra kraštovaizdžio naudotoja.…”

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Kaimo Kultūrinio Kraštovaizdžio Vertė

Jurevičienė

2010

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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Įteikta 2010 06 23Santrauka. Nagrinėjamos kaimo kultūrinio kraštovaizdžio problemos, susijusios su jo vertės sampratos kaita pastaraisiais de šimtmečiais Vakarų šalyse ir Lietuvoje. Atskleidžiami mažai nagrinėti Lietuvos kaimo kraštovaizdžio vertės aspektai. Siekiama atskleisti dabartinėje Lietuvos kaimiškojo kraštovaizdžio reglamentavimo sistemoje slypinčius pavojus jo vertingosioms savybėms išlikti. Lyginami reikalavimai, nustatyti šiuose dokumentuose ir Lietuvos ratifikuotuose Europos Sąjungos teisės aktuose. Lyginama vietos bendruomenių sąsajų su kraštovaizdžiu svarba ir ribotos teisinės bei ūkinės prielaidos joms dalyvauti kaimiškojo kultūrinio kraštovaizdžio vertės nustatymo ir jos išsaugojimo procesuose.Reikšminiai žodžiai: kultūrinė vertė, aplinkos kūrimo tradicijos, kaimo kraštovaizdis, Dieveniškių regioninis parkas.

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Buildings as History: The Place of Collective Memory in the Study of Historic Preservation

Cited by 25 publications

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Virtuous marginality: Social preservationists and the selection of the old-timer

Virtuous marginality: Social preservationists and the selection of the old-timer

Architectures of Memory: When Growth Machines Embrace Preservationists

Kaimo Kultūrinio Kraštovaizdžio Vertė

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