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"General Grant Isn't Coming Back": Local Economics, Politics, and Historic Preservation in Galena, Illinois, 1964–1981
abstract:The small city of Galena, Illinois, engaged in an active public debate over the future of its rich nineteenth-century built environment between 1964 and the early 1980s. Framed in terms of economic recovery, citizens and local officials embraced historic preservation as the means to nurture Galena's heritage tourism industry. However, they differed greatly over the extent to which the city's business district should be saved or modernized. City officials went so far as to consider a plan of urban renewal that would reduce the historic aspects of the business district by half and replace nineteenth-century structures with a motel, a strip mall, and parking lots. In the ensuing debate, residents forcefully voted down the renewal plan, effectively enshrining preservation as city policy. Galena's experience challenges existing studies of historic preservation by highlighting the ways in which small town residents resorted to local politics and market forces to embrace preservation as a means for economic renewal.
期刊介绍:
Buildings & Landscapes is the leading source for scholarly work on vernacular architecture of North America and beyond. The journal continues VAF’s tradition of scholarly publication going back to the first Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture in 1982. Published through the University of Minnesota Press since 2007, the journal moved from one to two issues per year in 2009. Buildings & Landscapes examines the places that people build and experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. The journal’s contributorsundefinedhistorians and architectural historians, preservationists and architects, geographers, anthropologists and folklorists, and others whose work involves documenting, analyzing, and interpreting vernacular formsundefinedapproach the built environment as a windows into human life and culture, basing their scholarship on both fieldwork and archival research. The editors encourage submission of articles that explore the ways the built environment shapes everyday life within and beyond North America.