The Past and Future City : How Historic Preservation Is Reviving America's Communities - Meeks, Stephanie; Murphy, Kevin C.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016)
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Powers of Place -- 1. Downtown Is For People: Competing Visions of the Ideal American City -- 2 .Older, Smaller, Better: How Older Buildings Enhance Urban Vitality -- 3. Making It Work for Your City: Unleashing the Power and Potential of Historic Fabric -- 4. Buildings Reborn: Keeping Historic Properties in Active Use -- 5. Our Diverse History: Towards More Inclusive History and Communities -- 6. Mitigating the Great Inversion: The Problems of Affordability and Displacement -- 7. The Greenest Buildings: Preservation, Climate Change, and the Environment -- Conclusion: The Future of the Past: Livable Cities and the Future of Preservation -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- About the Authors.
Keywords: Environment; Sustainable architecture; Regional planning; Urban planning; Buildings; Environment, general; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Building Types and Functions