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Preserving with purpose : reimagining buildings for community benefit / Amy Hetletvedt.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA105 .H47 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hetletvedt, Amy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration.
- Historic buildings.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 265 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Reimagining buildings for community benefit
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Island Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Hetletvedt explores contextual approaches to existing buildings in disinvested communities as an alternative to demolition, explains why these buildings matter, and what communities and professionals can make of them, together. Preserving With Purpose features profiles and case studies from around the world. Four profiles focus on places facing the challenges of vacancy and abandonment which have, over time, reimagined buildings using the approaches described in the book. The profiles include Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas; The Dorchester Projects and Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, Illinois; Menokin in Warsaw, Virginia and the Granby Four Streets in Liverpool, England. Fifteen case studies cover a broader geographic range and are organized into three purposeful interventions: priority, practical and poetic"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Addressing the challenge. Why buildings are being lost: burdens and barriers
- Why buildings matter: purposes for preserving
- What works: processes and perspectives
- Purposeful approaches to existing buildings. Priorities: saving endangered or threatened buildings
- The poetic: activating buildings through narratives
- The prosaic: activating buildings through practical interventions
- Community examples: profiles of purpose. Radical hospitality
- A different story to tell
- Service is your rent
- Social sculpture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Eden fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1642833487
- 9781642833485
- OCLC:
- 1514891649
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