| Description |
xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index. |
| Contents |
Conserving history in changing contexts -- Introduction -- What is architectural conservation? -- What do we conserve? -- Why conserve buildings and sites? -- Who owns the past? -- History, historiography, and architectural conservation -- Problems, principles, and process -- Perils to built heritage -- Options for involvement -- Principles, charters, and ethics -- The conservation process -- Participants in architectural conservation -- Conservation of the built environment: an enduring concern -- Prehistory through the fourteenth century -- Fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries -- The forging of a discipline: the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries -- Contemporary architectural conservation practice -- International activities and cooperation -- A multidimensional field for the twenty-first century -- A summary global tour of contemporary practice: challenges and solutions -- The past in the future. |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Conservation and restoration
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Historic preservation -- Philosophy
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| Added Author |
World Monuments Fund (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
9780470260494 (cloth) |
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0470260491 (cloth) |
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