The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties

Author: United States. Department of the Interior

Publisher: National Park Service Division of Publications

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Provides guidance to cultural landscape owners, stewards and managers, landscape architects, preservation planners, architects, engineers, contractors, and project reviewers prior to and during the planning and implementation of treatment projects. A cultural landscape is a geographic area associated with a historic event, activity, or person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values.

The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes
The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes

Author: Mauro Agnoletti

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1845930746

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The conservation and management of cultural landscapes, interpreted as the result of the interrelationships among economic, social and environmental factors through time and space, emerges as essential components in the definition and application of a modern approach to sustainable development. Cultural landscapes are the result of management practices and knowledge accumulated in human history and contribute not only to the cultural heritage of the world, but also to biodiversity and aesthetic beauty, providing also multiple goods and services for the development of rural areas. However, landscapes are severely endangered not only by some effects of the socioeconomic development, but also by inappropriate policies in agriculture, forestry and nature conservation. This interdisciplinary book presents a range of different methods developed to analyse, restore and manage cultural landscapes, reporting a number of case studies from Europe and north America, but raising some questions about the need for a revision of some past orientations.

After Progress
After Progress

Author: Norman Birnbaum

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0195158598

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Here, Birnbaum traces the decline and fall of social reform in Europe and America. He shows, for example, that William Howard Taft railed against socialism, by which he meant anything restricting the market.