Historic District Action Guide (eBook)

From Designation Campaigns to Keeping Districts Vital

William E. Schmickle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
459 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0355-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a results-oriented, straight-talking guide for local activists, professionals, and preservation commissions committed to winning and maintaining local historic districts. Its political approach focuses on the crucial challenges of gaining and sustaining community and local governmental support for historic district regulations.

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The Historic District Action Guide: From Designation Campaigns to Keeping Districts Vital is a results-oriented, straight-talking guide for local activists, professionals, and preservation commissions committed to winning and maintaining local historic districts. Its political approach focuses on the crucial challenges of gaining and sustaining community and local governmental support for historic district regulations.This how-to guide gives citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political process; planning and strategy; campaign organizing and leadership; framing a practical vision; anticipating and handling the opposition; conducting community meetings; skirmishing with property rightists; managing issues, petitions, and public opinion; dealing with public officials; strategizing for public hearings; and winning the vote for district designation. Once the vote is won, the Action Guide shows how to maintain momentum in their communities once the initial political campaign to win historic preservation designation has faded and the real work of enforcement begins.

Autor

William E. Schmickle, Ph.D., is past chair of the Annapolis Historic Preservation Commission and cofounder of the Oak Ridge, North Carolina, Historic District. His services are available through his website, www.preservationpolitics.com.

Inhalt

Introduction: What D’ya Know? Before You Take Another StepThinking Politically about Historic District DesignationHow It StartsA Walk through the Designation Process: A Guided Tour with Planner Kaye GraybealOn Planning and StrategyOur Strategic Line: A Community in/within ConflictMakers, Breakers, Takers, and Shapers: The Political Field of PlayLeadership and OrganizationWorking with a Local Historical Society: A Conversation with Historic Annapolis’ Greg StiversonA Practical VisionGentrification and Social Justice: An Exchange with the University of Georgia’s James ReapThinking Politically about Design GuidelinesIt’s PersonalSticks and StonesThe Campaign KickoffTwitter CampaigningCommunity Meeting ArrangementsYour Community PresentationFAQs: Frequently Asked QuestionsThinking Politically about Q&A: The Moving Pattern of Opponents’ ChallengesOur Reframing Q&A StrategyAnswering Opposition Questions I: From “Distrust of Them” to the “Pivotal Shift”Answering Opposition Questions II: From the “Pivotal Shift” to “Distrust of Us”Property-Rights Extremists Petition PoliticsReaching Out to the OppositionMoving on to City Hall: Preparing for Commission HearingsBehind-the-Scenes IntelligenceWorking with the Press: Guidance from a ReporterA Civic VisionThe Top Tier of Local GovernmentThe Politics of Public HearingsLobbying City Hall: A Conversation with a LobbyistSpeaking Mayor to Mayor: A Dialogue with Charleston’s Joseph P. Riley. Jr.A Checklist for One-on-One MeetingsOur Public Hearing PresentationThe Politics of CompromiseWinning the VoteOur Transition to the HPCOn Public Service Our Community Compact for Rooted Growth Drawing up Our Design Guidelines: Tackling the Problem with Consultant Peter BensonFusion Preservation: Thinking like a DistrictistPolitical Maintenance: Delivering Good GovernmentDispositional Gatekeeping The Temptation of Administrative LegalismMunicipal NeglectThe View from City Council: A Talk with a Council MemberDistricts under ThreatState-Level InterventionsThe Role of Your Preservation Planner: A Discussion with Raleigh’s Dan BeckerRelations with Your Mayor: The Views of a Mayor’s AdviserThe Crisis of Second-Generation DistrictsOIMBYismGetting Helpful Local Coverage: The Perspectives of a Newspaper Executive EditorOur New Strategic LineA New Political Who’s Who: An OverviewWho’s Who, Part One: District Rooters Who’s Who, Part Two: District RottersConfronting PolarizersGentrification’s Dissidents: On Displacement with Baltimore’s Eric HolcombPolitical Personalities: Who Leads?The Stages of Declining DistrictsThe Politics of Decision Making: Defensible and DefendableEnforcement: The Third Rail of Historic District Politics The Politics of AppealsChoosing Our BattlesTransformative EducationReconstructive ProgramsInstitutionalizing Community RelationsRenewal through Revising Design GuidelinesA Preservation Plan? Looking Ahead with Consultant Elizabeth WatsonOur Sustaining VisionEpilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2018
• Reihe/Serie: American Association for State and Local History
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 4 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Tables; - 4 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: community engagement • Governance • historic site • historic site management • how to • navigate politics • Politics • save historic sites • work with local boards • work with local politics
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0355-9 / 1538103559
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0355-5 / 9781538103555