In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and ...secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the material culture of the period reflects a particular set of values and aspirations. Tarlow examines the philosophical and historical background to the notion of improvement and demonstrates how this concept is a useful lens through which to examine the material culture of later historical Britain.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly ...illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers an invaluable resource for architects, planners, surveyors and engineers worldwide working in heritage conservation, as well as for local authority conservation officers and managers of heritage sites.
The article focuses on the practice of historical building protection and modern functional renovation, using Rietveld Schröder House is a case study that explores how to effectively integrate the ...needs of modern life while respecting historical heritage. Research on Rietveld The structural and exterior protection of the Schröder House and the functional transformation of the internal space are analyzed in detail, and the transformation effect is evaluated through questionnaires and quantitative methods. It is expected to demonstrate the balance between preservation and modernization of historic buildings, and how such renovation can enhance the functionality, aesthetic value and socio-cultural benefits of the building.
Tokyo vernacular Sand, Jordan
2013., 20130801, 2013, 2013-07-13
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this ...trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape. Scholarship to date has tended to view historicism in the postindustrial context as either a genuine response to loss, or as a cynical commodification of the past. The historical process of Tokyo’s historicization suggests other interpretations. Moving from the politics of the public square to the invention of neighborhood community, to oddities found and appropriated in the streets, to the consecration of everyday scenes and artifacts as heritage in museums, Tokyo Vernacular traces the rediscovery of the past—sometimes in unlikely forms—in a city with few traditional landmarks. Tokyo's rediscovered past was mobilized as part of a new politics of the everyday after the failure of mass politics in the 1960s. Rather than conceiving the city as national center and claiming public space as national citizens, the post-1960s generation came to value the local places and things that embodied the vernacular language of the city, and to seek what could be claimed as common property outside the spaces of corporate capitalism and the state.
AbstractIn December 2021, an EF-4 tornado swept through several Midwest states in the United States, with Kentucky being the worst hit. Among the impacted towns was Mayfield, KY, where the historic ...buildings in downtown suffered significant damage. In response to this disaster, the authors conducted a reconnaissance mission to digitally document the affected historic structures. This involved capturing a series of three-dimensional (3D) point clouds, providing detailed spatial data about the impacted buildings. The resulting data set includes both the original raw data and processed information, now accessible via the DesignSafe open-access repository. This paper outlines the data collection process for the impacted buildings, and the steps undertaken to process it. The final product of this endeavor are the point clouds generated for the historic building typology, which included 10 historic buildings and 2 comparable religious buildings. These point clouds serve as invaluable resources for further analysis, aiding in understanding a disaster’s impact, and guiding restoration endeavors.
As a provincial level historic city, Songpan County in Sichuan Province has a history of more than two thousand years. Locating in the border of three provinces, Songpan was inhabited by multiple ...ethnic groups. The leading culture here has experienced the baptism and influence of various ethnic cultures such as the Diqiang culture, Mongolian culture, and Tubo culture, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that the harmonious scene of the coexistence of various ethnic cultures began to be dominated by the Central Plains culture. This research took the Ma house in Songzhou ancient city in Songpan County as the object, which is a representative of local Hui people’s traditional dwellings with a history of three hundred years. Many factors have led to unsystematic protection and renovation to it, and the traces of time was superimposed on it. Therefore, starting from the authenticity degrees of historic building, this paper identified and analysed the timeliness value and spatial value of the Ma house by combining the full information cycle of historic building, which provided a new method and more rational view for the research of historic dwellings.
