Historic Preservation For A Living City

Download or read book Historic Preservation and the Livable City written by Eric W. Allison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both the preservation professional and urban planner, this book shows how preservation is a key to the creation of livable cities. The author Eric Allison, the founder and coordinated of the graduate historic preservation program at Pratt Institute in New York City, offers tools and case studies that preservationists and planners can learn from in implementing preservation projects or plans in cities large and small. This book is a must read for anyone working in or interested in these fields and the creation and maintenance of livable cities.