Why Old Places Matter (eBook)

How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being

Thompson M. Mayes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
168 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1769-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the reasons that old places matter to people such as the feelings of belonging, continuity, stability, identity and memory, as well as the more traditional reasons, such as history, national identity, and architecture. This book brings these ideas together in evocative language and with illustrative images.

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Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people. Although people often feel very deeply about the old places of their lives, they don't have the words to express why. This book brings these ideas together in evocative language and with illustrative images for a broad audience.The book reveals the fundamentally important yet under-recognized role old places play in our lives. While many people feel a deep-seated connection to old places -- from those who love old houses, to the millions of tourists who are drawn to historic cities, to the pilgrims who flock to ancient sites throughout the world -- few can articulate why. The book explores these deep attachments people have with old places the feelings of belonging, continuity, stability, identity and memory, as well as the more traditional reasons that old places have been deemed by society to be important, such as history, national identity, and architecture.This book will be appealing to anyone who has ever loved an old place. But more importantly, it will be an useful resource to articulate why old places are meaningful to people and their communities. This book will help people understand that the feeling many have for old places is supported by a wide variety of fields, and that the continued existence of these old places is good. It will give people the words and phrases to understand and express why old places matter.

Autor

Thompson McCord Mayes, vice president and senior counsel at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has spent his professional career preserving old places. In 2013, Tom was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation by the American Academy in Rome, and subsequently spent a six-month residency in Rome as a Fellow of the Academy. The essays that are collected in this publication came about as a result of that experience. They were previously published in 2014 and 2015 as a series on the National Trust’s Preservation Leadership Forum Blog, http://blog.preservation leadershipforum.org.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsForeword, by Stephanie K. MeeksPrologueIntroductionChapter 1: Continuity Chapter 2: Memory Chapter 3: Individual Identity Chapter 4: Civic, State, National, and Universal Identity Chapter 5: Beauty Chapter 6: History Chapter 7: ArchitectureChapter 8: Sacred Chapter 9: Creativity Chapter 10: Learning Chapter 11: Sustainability Chapter 12: Ancestors Chapter 13: Community Chapter 14: Economics EpilogueBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: American Association for State and Local History
• Zusatzinfo: 75 Illustrations including: - 75 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Schlagworte: American architecture • Historical Buildings • historic houses • historic preservation • historic sites • Home Architecture • House Architecture • National Preservation • Old Buildings • Old Places • Sustainable Architecture • Sustainable design • The National Trust
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1769-X / 153811769X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1769-9 / 9781538117699