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Historic Preservation: An American Perspective on a Professional Discipline

Historic Preservation: An American Perspective on a Professional Discipline HIS TORIC PRESERVAT ION: AN AMERICAN PERSPEC T I V E ON A PROF ES SIONAL DISCIPL INE F R A N K M A T E R O Chair, Gradu ate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania -1— 0— 637-100510_COT_v10n1_2P.indd 2 637-100510_COT_v10n1_2P.indd 2 31/08/21 8:17 PM 31/08/21 8:17 PM Beginning in the mid-1960s, courses in “historic preservation” entered a number of American universities, later developing into discrete academic programs by the 1970s. These programs, many housed in schools of architecture and planning, emerged in reac­ tion to prevailing design education and practice, gaining support from a public tired of the largely banal and placeless buildings and urban environments that postwar architects and planners had created, often at the expense of vital urban neighborhoods and popu­ lar civic monuments such as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. By the early 1970s, the nation’s approaching bicentennial only fueled the desire to take stock of the country’s entire built legacy, rather than a select white colonial past as celebrated one hundred years earlier. As part of a larger academic movement in interdisciplinary studies and the rise of public interest and activism in environmental issues, policy, and legislation in the 1980s, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Change Over Time University of Pennsylvania Press

Historic Preservation: An American Perspective on a Professional Discipline

Matero, Frank
Change Over Time , Volume 10 (1) – Sep 30, 2021
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HIS TORIC PRESERVAT ION: AN AMERICAN PERSPEC T I V E ON A PROF ES SIONAL DISCIPL INE F R A N K M A T E R O Chair, Gradu ate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania -1— 0— 637-100510_COT_v10n1_2P.indd 2 637-100510_COT_v10n1_2P.indd 2 31/08/21 8:17 PM 31/08/21 8:17 PM Beginning in the mid-1960s, courses in “historic preservation” entered a number of American universities, later developing into discrete academic programs by the 1970s. These programs, many housed in schools of architecture and planning, emerged in reac­ tion to prevailing design education and practice, gaining support from a public tired of the largely banal and placeless buildings and urban environments that postwar architects and planners had created, often at the expense of vital urban neighborhoods and popu­ lar civic monuments such as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. By the early 1970s, the nation’s approaching bicentennial only fueled the desire to take stock of the country’s entire built legacy, rather than a select white colonial past as celebrated one hundred years earlier. As part of a larger academic movement in interdisciplinary studies and the rise of public interest and activism in environmental issues, policy, and legislation in the 1980s,

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