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Author_Denise Lawrence-Zuniga
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comparative suburban restoration practices
Contemporary Society
Craftsman Bungalow
Demolition Permit
Elderly Homeowners
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ethnographic fieldwork methods
Historic Districts
Historic Preservation
Historic Preservation Legislation
historic preservation policy
Historic Preservation Programs
Historic Preservation Regulations
Home Tour
homeowner restoration practices
Homeowner's Experiences
Homeowner’s Experiences
HPC
immigrant neighbourhood integration
Influence Homeowners
Landmark Designation
Landmark District
local advocacy
Low Income Minority Residents
Mission Inn
Oak Streets
Ontario Heritage
Original Kitchen
Preservation Advocates
Preservation Professionals
Public Private Partnerships
Ready Adoption
social construction of space
suburban anthropology
urban heritage studies
White America
Product details
- ISBN 9780367668433
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America.Bridging architecture, anthropology, planning, and urban studies, its unique approach combines a study of historic preservation with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, to shed fascinating light on issues of heritage, preservation, gentrification, class, ethnicity, and contested values in suburbia. These are subjects which reach far beyond the setting of the book’s focus in California to touch on topical debates in cities, suburbia, and gentrifying neighborhoods worldwide.At the heart of the book is a detailed comparative ethnography of preservation practices and the changing landscapes of five suburban cities, where affluent homeowners have begun to restore their early twentieth-century houses in neighborhoods once suffering from decline. Not every neighbor, however, shares the same aesthetic values, and complex dynamics can arise. The study compares experiences in five different cities, and in different long-term, immigrant, and gentrifying populations. Themes revealed include homeowner restoration practices, aesthetic contestations, local advocacy, and public policy, alongside an exploration of the social construction of the historic restoration process, and how homeowners construct ‘historical’ meaning in their homes and neighbourhoods. These are themes with consequences for national and global settings – of interest wherever contested preservation aesthetics and regulations are reshaping older residential neighbourhoods and their social dynamics.
Denise Lawrence-Zuniga is Professor of Architecture and a sociocultural anthropologist at the College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.
