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Making Historic Preservation Sustainable

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  • Erica Avrami

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Problem, research strategy, and findings: Historic preservation has the potential to serve as a constructive agent of change within the built environment and to contribute to goals of environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, tensions between sustainability goals and preservation policy and practice are impeding opportunities to forge common ground and a shared agenda. I review the existing literature related to the preservation---sustainability nexus and critically analyze how preservation policies and practices conflict with or support key sustainability goals of energy consumption reduction, alternative energy production, urban densification, economic development, inclusion, diversity and participation, and intergenerational equity. Key findings of this research include the need to resolve tensions between sustainability and historic preservation practice through research and data, evolving preservation policies, and aligning historic preservation with the goals of environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Takeaway for practice: The future of the preservation field and its engagement with sustainability goals hinge on the ability to contribute to environmental, economic, and social aims, but to also demonstrate why social concerns may sometimes trump economic and environmental ones given the fundamentally social aims of historic preservation. Understanding where tensions lie and why conflicts arise is an important step toward enhancing research about preservation outcomes and their contributions to sustainability and evolving preservation policy to better respond to changing environmental, economic, and societal conditions.

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  • Erica Avrami, 2016. "Making Historic Preservation Sustainable," Journal of the American Planning Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 82(2), pages 104-112, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjpaxx:v:82:y:2016:i:2:p:104-112
    DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2015.1126196
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    1. Hannah M. Teicher, 2023. "Making embodied carbon mainstream: a framework for cities to leverage waste, equity, and preservation policy to reduce embodied emissions in buildings," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 13(3), pages 404-418, September.
    2. Tetsuharu Oba & Douglas Simpson Noonan, 2020. "The Price of Preserving Neighborhoods: The Unequal Impacts of Historic District Designation," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 34(4), pages 343-355, November.
    3. Xiao Song & Kee-Cheok Cheong & Qianyi Wang & Yurui Li, 2020. "Developmental Sustainability through Heritage Preservation: Two Chinese Case Studies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-18, May.
    4. Maria Karoglou & Stella Sofia Kyvelou & Christos Boukouvalas & Chryssa Theofani & Asterios Bakolas & Magdalini Krokida & Antonia Moropoulou, 2019. "Towards a Preservation–Sustainability Nexus: Applying LCA to Reduce the Environmental Footprint of Modern Built Heritage," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-19, November.
    5. Wendy Wuyts & Raphael Sedlitzky & Masato Morita & Hiroki Tanikawa, 2020. "Understanding and Managing Vacant Houses in Support of a Material Stock-Type Society—The Case of Kitakyushu, Japan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(13), pages 1-23, July.

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