The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
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Preservation was part of the same vision that included skyscrapers, extensive subways, a large government, and a newly regulated society, not a reaction against it.
There are some fairly instrumental lessons in this history, relevant to contemporary practitioners of preservation in New York as well as other cities. The book argues that historic preservation is a fundamental part of every modern city.
But the few places stewarded and created by preservationists work as an alloy for modern cities: Strategically and tactically, preservationists should embrace these roots of their field, and advance preservation as part of the creative discussion about making the modern cities—rather than as a separate, segregated concern of a few experts, which too often is the case.
And those outside the preservation community—designers, developers, public officials, citizens—should take notice of the presence of the material past in all our lives.
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I have unlearned and relearned this lesson several times over the past couple of years. I'll be returning to various sections — especially the idea of a "memory infrastructure" — for an ongoing research project, and am also paying attention to the writing to try and recover a sense of academic writing about cities and landscapes.
The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
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