Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America / Edition 1

by Arnold R. Alanen, Robert Z. Melnick, Dolores Hayden

Overview

Winner of the Society for Architectural Historians Antoinette Forrester Downing AwardWinner of the Merit Award for Communications from the American Society of Landscape ArchitectsWinner of the Allen Noble Award from the Pioneer America Society

Historic preservation efforts began with an emphasis on buildings, especially those associated with significant individuals, places, or events. Subsequent efforts were expanded to include vernacular architecture, but only in recent decades have preservationists begun shifting focus to the land itself. Cultural landscapes—such as farms, gardens, and urban parks—are now seen as projects worthy of the preservationist's attention. To date, however, no book has addressed the critical issues involved in cultural landscape preservation.

In Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America, Arnold R. Alanen and Robert Z. Melnick bring together a distinguished group of contributors to address the complex academic and practical questions that arise when people set out to designate and preserve a cultural landscape. Beginning with a discussion of why cultural landscape preservation is important, the authors explore such topics as the role of nature and culture, the selling of heritage landscapes, urban parks and cemeteries, Puerto Rican neighborhoods in New York City, vernacular landscapes in small towns and rural areas, ethnographic landscapes, Asian American imprints on the western landscape, and integrity as a value in cultural landscape preservation.

Contributors: Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin-Madison • Luis Aponte-Perés, University of Massachusetts-Boston • Gail Lee Dubrow, University of Washington, Seattle • Richard Francaviglia, University of Texas, Arlington • Donald L. Hardesty, University of Nevada, Reno • Catherine Howett, University of Georgia, Athens • Robert Z. Melnick, University of Oregon • Patricia M. O'Donnell, Historic Preservation Consultant, Charlotte, Vermont • David Schuyler, Franklin & Marshall College

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801862649
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	04/03/2000
Series:	Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.66(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Arnold R. Alanen is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the coauthor of Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin and Nordic Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.

Robert Z. Melnick is a professor of landscape architecture and dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon, Eugene. He is the coeditor of Yearbook of Landscape Architecture: Historic Preservation.

Table of Contents

	Foreword: In Search of the American Cultural Landscape	vii
	Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction: Why Cultural Landscape Preservation?	1
1	Considering Nature and Culture in Historic Landscape Preservation	22
2	Selling Heritage Landscapes	44
3	The History and Preservation of Urban Parks and Cemeteries	70
4	Appropriating Place in Puerto Rican Barrios Preserving Contemporary Urban Landscapes	94
5	Considering the Ordinary Vernacular Landscapes in Small Towns and Rural Areas	112
6	Asian American Imprints on the Western Landscape	143
7	Ethnographic Landscapes Transforming Nature into Culture	169
8	Integrity as a Value in Cultural Landscape Preservation	186
	Notes	209
	References	225
	Contributors	241
	Index	243

Editorial Reviews

There may be no area of landscape architectural practice today that is more actively changing or more important. The contributors to this volume have carried the banner of cultural landscape preservation forward into even deeper waters.
—Joseph Chambers, Journal of the New England Garden History Society

The authors of the nine essays . . . raise a host of issues relevant to landscape study . . . By concentrating on the ideas that underlie the modern preservation movement, the editors have contributed to the wider realm of landscape studies.
—Thomas Harvey, Historical Geography

From the Publisher

The authors of the nine essays... raise a host of issues relevant to landscape study... By concentrating on the ideas that underlie the modern preservation movement, the editors have contributed to the wider realm of landscape studies.

— Thomas Harvey

Historical Geography

There may be no area of landscape architectural practice today that is more actively changing or more important. The contributors to this volume have carried the banner of cultural landscape preservation forward into even deeper waters.

— Joseph Chambers

Journal of the New England Garden History Society

"The authors of the nine essays... raise a host of issues relevant to landscape study... By concentrating on the ideas that underlie the modern preservation movement, the editors have contributed to the wider realm of landscape studies."

Historical Geography - Thomas Harvey

"There may be no area of landscape architectural practice today that is more actively changing or more important. The contributors to this volume have carried the banner of cultural landscape preservation forward into even deeper waters."

Journal of the New England Garden History Society - Joseph Chambers