Protecting Suburban America: Gentrification, Advocacy and the Historic Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9780367668433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Denise Lawrence-Zuniga

Opis

Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Framing Preservation2. Discovering Material Agency: Making of the Preservation Homeowner3. Restoration Strategies: Imagining the Past and Reconstructing Historic Meaning4. History Preservation Cosmology: Municipal Regulations and City Dynamics5. Local Level Preservation and Exclusion: Traditional Elites6. Gentrification: Education, Reform and Advocacy7. Immigrant Challenges: Communicating Preservation Values Across the Cultural Divide in Alhambra8. Conclusion: Toward an Anthropology of SuburbiaBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Denise Lawrence-Zuniga is Professor of Architecture and a sociocultural anthropologist at the College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.