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HP 304 Contemporary Preservation Planning and Policy Seminar Syllabus

Fall 2009
Wednesdays from 12:50 – 3:50, Martin Luther King Room, Billings Center
Prof. Thomas Visser and guest speakers
Contact: Thomas.Visser@uvm.edu
http://www.uvm.edu/histpres/304/HP304syllabus2009.html

Class schedule

1. September 2 - Course Introduction - History, Theory, and Practice of Historic Preservation

Review: Telling Historic Preservation Time

2. September 9 - History, Theory, and Practice of Historic Preservation

Readings: James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation, Chapters 1, 2, 19, 20

Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage, Prologue; and Chapter 1: "Some Preservation Fundamentals;" and Chapter 2, "The Federal Preservation Program; Chapter 11: "Historic Preservation in a Global Context. An International Perspective."

Daniel Bluestone, "Academics in Tennis Shoes: Historic Preservation and the Academy," The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 58, No. 3, Architectural History 1999/2000 (Sep., 1999), pp. 300-307. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/991522
(For off-campus or on-campus wireless access to JSTOR, first establish a VPN connection with UVM. VPN software for Windows and Mac computers, which must be installed first, is available to UVM affiliates at https://www.uvm.edu/software/)

Review:

About ICOMOS

UNESCO World Heritage Center

U. S. World Heritage Sites

European Heritage Network

Sabina Wiedenhoeft, Austrian Preservation

International preservation resources links at http://www.uvm.edu/histpres/ncpe/international.htm

3. September 16 - History, Theory, and Practice of Historic Preservation - Future Trends - Career Opportunities in Historic Preservation

Readings: Forum Journal Summer 2009 (Forum membership registration required in advance)

Donovan Rypkema, "Preservation in the MIdst of Economic Chaos: A 20/20 Vision into the Future"
Susan West Montgomery, "New Economic Realities –and Strategies–for Local Preservation Organizations"
Royce Yeater, "The Foreclosure Crisis: Preservation Concerns and Responses"
Anita Nowery Durel, "What Can We Do for You? Broadening the Relevance and Reputation of Museums and Historic Sites
Adrian Scott Fine, "Is the Teardown Trend Over?"John I. Williams, Jr., "Heritage Travel Trends and the Economic Downtown"
Stacy Mitchell, "Buy Local" Helps Main Street Merchants and Other Independents Survive Recession"

Review: Pocantico Proclamation on Sustainability and Historic Preservation - National Trust for Historic Preservation

"Does sustainability trump historic value?"

Review: UVM Historic Preservation Internship Listings , Preservenet employment and internship opportunities,
NCSHPO Jobs in Preservation, USAJobs, Student Conservation Association,
National Trust for Historic Preservation Forum career opportunities (Forum membership registration required)

4. September 23 - Fundraising for nonprofit organizations-

Guest: Christine Graham, CPG Enterprises, Inc.

Readings: Norton J. Kiritz, Program Planning & Proposal Writing, Los Angeles, CA: The Grantsmanship Center.

James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation, Chapters 3, 4, 18

Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage. Chapter 9: "Private Sector Involvement in Historic Preservation"

Due: Research Project Proposal

5. September 30 - Preservation Planning in an Urban Context

Guest: Peter W. Murphy AICP, Conseiller en design urbain, Division du design, de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Ville de Québec

Readings: James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation, Chapters 5, 7, 8, 9

Planning Commissioners Journal, Fall 2003. http://www.plannersweb.com/contents/historicpreservation.html

Review: Ville de Quebec - About the City

6. October 7 - Preservation Planning at the State Level

Nancy Boone, Acting State Historic Preservation Officer, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

Judith Ehrlich, Director of Operations, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

Readings: James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation, Chapters 13, 15

Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage. Chapter 3, "The States: The Backbone of Preservation;" and Chapter 4, "Local Government Programs: Preservation Where It Counts."

Review:

Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning1977/1985 (NR Bulletin 24)

National Park Service, Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Preservation Planning http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/pad/PlngStds/index.htm
NPS Planning Companion http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/pad/plancompan/plancompanion.htm
NPS State and Territorial Preservation Plan Profiles http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/pad/stateplans/
CRM Preservation Planning, Insuring a Future for our Past http://crm.cr.nps.gov/issue.cfm?volume=23&number=07
California Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan. http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21756
Planning to Preserve: 2004 State Historic Preservation Plan for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/khc/preservation_plan.htm

Vermont Barn Census

Vermont Act 250 Statute

Act 250 Database

7. October 14 - Managing Regional Preservation Organizations

Guest: Steven Engelhart, Executive Director, Adirondack Architectural Heritage

Readings: James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation. Chapter 10: The Architectural Museum: Indoors and Out;" and Chapter 17: Two Levels of Interpretation."

Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage. Chapter 10: "Nonprofits in the American Preservation Movement"

8. October 21 - Community economic revitalization - Downtown programs

Guests: Chris Cochran and Leanne Tingay, Vermont Division of Planning and Community Revitalization

Readings: National Trust Main Street Center, Church Street Marketplace

Due: Public meeting report

9. October 28 - Preservation Planning and Transportation,

Guests: MaryAnn Naber, Federal Preservation Officer, U. S. Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC and Scott Newman, Historic Preservation Officer, Vermont Agency of Transportation, Montpelier, VT

Readings: Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage. Chapter 5: "Preservation Law and Public Policy;" Chapter 6: "Preserving Important Landscapes."

Review: FHWA Historic Preservation and Archeology Program

VT AOT Programmatic Agreement

10. November 4 - Impacts of race and diversity on historic preservation

Guest: Ned Kaufman, author, Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of Historic Preservation

Readings: Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage. Chapter 12: "The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Historic Preservation."

Recommended Reading: Ned Kaufman, Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of Historic Preservation (Routledge, 2009)

Review: National Park Service Cultural Diversity Program

11. November 11 - Cultural Resource Management: Archaeological Resources

Guest: Giovanna Peebles, Vermont State Archaeologist, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation (unavailable due to schedule conflict)

Readings: Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage. Chapter 7: "The Natural Environment;" and Chapter 8: "Uncertain Destiny. The Changing Role of Archeology in Historic Preservation;" Chapter 13: "Native Americans and Historic Preservation;" and Chapter 14: "Folklife, Intangible Heritage, and the Promise and Perils of Cultural Cooperation."

12. November 18 - National Preservation Policy

Guest: Emily Wadhams, Vice President for Public Policy, National Trust for Historic Preservation (unavailable due to schedule conflict)

Readings: Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage. Chapter 15: "Where Do We Go From Here?"

James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation, Chapter 21, "Preservation in Tomorrow's World."

Review: National Trust Advocacy Center

CAHP/ACECP Code of Professional Conduct & Ethics

13. November 25 - No class - Thanksgiving Recess

14. December 2 - Class Presentations / Discussions

15. December 9 - Class Presentations / Discussions

Due: Research Report

This seminar explores how the history and theory of preservation affect contemporary preservation planning and policy issues through readings and seminars with practicing preservation professionals (subject to their availability). Course goals include addressing such questions as: What is the history of preservation in the United States and elsewhere in the world? How has preservation theory and policy evolved and where is it headed? Why preserve historic sites? What are the most common and most difficult contemporary preservation challenges? How are preservation policy and planning goals addressed by professionals in the field? What preservation policy and planning strategies are effective and appropriate? How can we become more effective preservation leaders?

Course readings

The assigned readings for this seminar are excerpts from a variety of books, journals, and articles selected to provide an overview of the history and theory of the preservation movement in the United States, while supplementing the policy and planning topics that will be discussed in class. All students are expected to complete the readings and to be prepared to discuss them in class.

Required readings

James Marston Fitch. Historic Preservation. Curatorial Management of the Built World. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1990. Originally published in 1982.

Robert E. Stipe, ed., A Richer Heritage. Historic Preservation in the Twenty First Century. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: the University of North Carolina Press, 2003. List price: $24.95 paperback.

Norton J. Kiritz, Program Planning & Proposal Writing, Expanded Version, Los Angeles, CA: The Grantsmanship Center. (This booklet is available from the Grantsmanship Center at http://www.tgci.com/publications/puborder.htm)

Wayne Senville, ed., "Planning for Historic Preservation," Planning Commissioners Journal. Special offer on print version at http://www.plannersweb.com/specialoffers.html or download at http://www.plannersweb.com/contents/historicpreservation.html

Forum Journal Summer 2009 (Forum student membership access procedures will be discussed in class)

Web references and resources:  

The Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Preservation Planning (1983)

Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning1977/1985 (NR Bulletin 24)

International Council on Monuments and Sites

American Association of State and Local History (AASLH)

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Preservation News (1961-1995)

Other Resources

Various publications and preservation planning documents are available in room 103 in Wheeler House. These materials, which may be useful resources for the research project assignment, are on reserve and should always remain in the room.

Expectations

Students are expected to attend all classes except due to illness or an emergency, or if excused in advance. This is a seminar course, so participation in class discussions is expected. Be sure to read all assigned readings and review all web resources before each class. Cell phones and messaging systems should be turned off during all classes. All students are expected to do individual work and each will be graded separately.

Assignments should be submitted on time at the beginning of class. All written assignments should be done on a computer and be double-spaced. Multiple page submissions should be securely bound together. Late work will be penalized unless arrangements are made with the professor in advance. Late submittals and missed classes will be penalized unless arrangements are made ahead and are due to circumstances beyond a student’s control.

It is expected that all work will be produced in a professional manner and will be thoroughly proof-read and checked for spelling and grammatical errors. The Chicago Manual of Style is the preferred style guide for citations in the historic preservation field. It is available for consultation in the reference section of the UVM Library or is available for purchase locally. All writing must be authored directly by each student and all sources of information and ideas that are not common knowledge must be identified through attributions in the text or citations using notes. Plagiarism is not tolerated. For guidance on this see and Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It at http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml Please also review the University of Vermont's Code of Academic Integrity at http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmppg/ppg/student/acadintegrity.pdf and the UVM Student Handbook at http://www.uvm.edu/~dos/handbook/

Preservation Policy and Planning Public Meetings. Due October 14. Each student should attend at least one public meeting or hearing where preservation plans, reviews or issues will be addressed. This could be a meeting of a local design review board, a historic preservation review board, a planning commission, a development review board, a state advisory council meeting or a state environmental district (Act 250) hearing.

• Part 1. Submit your own factual written report on the meeting in a format suitable for publication in a newspaper or newsletter.
• Part 2. In a separate section, write an analysis and commentary on the preservation policy issues addressed and on effectiveness of the meeting procedures and presentations. (3-5 pages).

Burlington Planning and Zoning Review Boards meeting schedules

Preservation Policy or Planning Research Project: Select a preservation policy or preservation planning initiative to research. This could be a planning project or a preservation program for a community, neighborhood or site. Research the history of the project or program, then study the actually place and/or interview people involved with the project or program. Alternatively, one could attend a professional conference or workshop where preservation policy or planning research is presented and interview people involved with the project or program.

• Research Project Proposal: Due September 23. Each student should submit a written proposal (1 to 3 pages) for the policy and planning research project. Identify the research topic and the specific preservation planning project(s) or preservation advocacy program(s) that you will research. The proposal should be written in the form of a professional business letter addressed to the professor. If a travel grant is to be requested, include in the proposal an anticipated travel itinerary and identify the places, preservation organizations and individuals to be contacted. Travel grants of up to $500 for allowable expenses may be applied for to support this research. These allowable expenses may include conference fees. Also, transportation and accommodation expenses may be allowed if the place chosen for study is at least 100 miles away from Burlington and if the travel is done only for this research project. Meals, beverages and supplies will not be reimbursed. Travel arrangements must not conflict with scheduled classes or teaching assistantship responsibilities.
• Research Project Presentation: Due December 2 or 9. Each student should make a 10 minute (no longer) professional presentation that summarizes the findings of their research accompanied by visual documentation materials.
• Research Report: Due December 9. The research report should include a narrative of about twenty pages (about 5000 words) of text, permanently bound with a cover, title page, table of contents, page numbers, footnotes, illustrations with numbered captions, and sources. Prepare a report that summarizes a preservation planning project or program or policy initiative and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, challenges and successes. Discuss the conditions, goals and challenges that the project or program or initiative has faced. How has it been structured, funded and staffed? Is (or was) it intended to be sustainable? What evidence is there of the impacts of the project or program or initiative? Relate your analysis and assessment to the preservation policy and planning themes included in the course readings and seminar discussions. This report is intended to bolster your portfolio of preservation research projects.

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PRESERVATION POLICY RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS

Students in this course have the option to apply for field research travel grants to support the completion of the research assignment for this course. These grants are supported by gifts to the UVM Historic Preservation Fund endowment. Written travel grant applications should be submitted with the research project proposal by September 23. The maximum grant award of $500.00 may be allocated to reimburse transportation and lodging expenses (no food or beverages) as discussed above. A set of written guidelines are posted on the web at http://www.uvm.edu/histpres/tripgrants.html. All travel and lodging arrangements and liabilities are the responsibility of each student. Travel arrangements must not conflict with any scheduled classes or teaching assistantship responsibilities.

Travel grant completion report: Completion reports are required for all grant recipients within two weeks of return from travel for review and to initiate reimbursement payments. If completion reports are not submitted by the end of the course, the grant will be forfeited. The following information is to be included in the completion report:

1. A letter of acknowledgement
2. The actual travel itinerary including names and addresses of the preservation organizations visited, preservation professionals interviewed, preservation activities observed, and research conducted or conferences or training workshops attended.
3. An expense accounting on a travel form that meets the requirements of the UVM accounting department with original receipts attached for all reimbursable expenses

Upcoming preservation conferences, workshops and events links

PreserveNet events

Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century

Traditional Building Baltimore: 2009

NATIONAL PRESERVATION CONFERENCE - NASHVILLE, TN

APT Conference - Los Angeles, CA

Shaping the American Landscape: New York City

The Preservationist's Eye: Esthetics in Reuse and Conservation of the Historic Built Environment- New York City

Citywide Preservation Conference - Washington, DC

The Heritage Imperative: Old Buildings in an Age of Environmental Crisis - Toronto, ON

NECSC Conference: Sustainability & Emerging Futures in Higher Education - University of Vermont

Seminar preparation and participation (10%)
Due September 23. Research proposal (5% )
Due October 14. Public meeting report (25%)
Due December 2 or 9. Research presentation (20%)
Due December 9. Research report (40%)