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1Introduction: What is historic preservation?
2The roots of historic preservation in the United States
3Preservation in the 20th century: History and policy
4The politics of significance: The President's House on Independence Mall, Philadelphia
5Preservation and interpretation: the Emily Dickinson museum
6

The politics of significance II: Poe, McKim and the NYU law school project

Guest speaker: Susan Lowance, Kohn Pedersen Fox

7If you can't see it, can you preserve it? The danger of "integrity"
8

Adaptive reuse: The Charles Street jail redevelopment

Guest speakers: Pamela Hawkes and Wolfgang Rudorf, Anne Beha architects

9

Preserving contemporary life: The ugly and ordinary and the high-style

Guest speaker: Helene Lipstadt, MIT

10

Preserving modern architecture: The case of Aalto in Cambridge

Guest speaker: David Fixler, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, architecture and engineering

11Reflections on contemporary preservation debates: the World Trade Center and New Orleans after Katrina
12Final presentations

 








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