Magazine
Issue 12: Historic preservation
Fall 2006
In our twelfth issue, TNAC explores a surprisingly volatile urban topic-preservation. While historic preservation battles may begin as local skirmishes over the fate of old buildings, they can quickly draw in activists, high-profile politicians, and the national media. Joseph Heathcott, a professor at St. Louis University, tells the tale of the Century Building, a late-19th century office tower in downtown St. Louis that was torn down in 2004 to make way for a parking lot. The plan was endorsed not only by downtown boosters, but by an esteemed preservation group, the National Trust. Jeffrey Chusid, a former Austinite, tells of an ongoing preservation battle in East Austin that pits one progressive group against another as the neighborhood struggles to understand the forces behind gentrification.
Features
- Historic Preservation: Paving Paradise
The Century Building Debacle and the Future of Historic Preservation
- Historic Preservation: Will Bethlehem Turn Steel into Gold?
By the end of the year, Bethlehem’s famous abandoned steel mill could be a casino - but does the city have even better ways to bring in cash?
- Historic Preservation: Preservation in the Progressive City
Debating History and Gentrification in Austin
- Historic Preservation: Looking East
The Asian megacity is set to become this century’s predominant urban form, which means Western preservationists have much to learn from Bangkok, Dhaka, and Mumbai
- Historic Preservation: Saving High-Rise Public Housing 1
After imploding many of its most loathed towers in the 1990s, the Chicago Housing Authority decided to save two historic developments from the scrap heap
- Katrina
Crosses from Rubble
- Fifteen Minutes withBrent Warr, Mayor of Gulfport, MS
Departments
- Arts & Culture
Sex in the City
- In Memoriam: Jane Jacobs
Why Jane Jacobs’ followers still misunderstand her most important contributions to urban thought
- PlanningEngineering the Perfect Suburb
Etcetera
- Last ExitAn Outsider Peers into the FEMA Trailer 1
- ReviewsMike Davis
Planet of Slums
- ReviewsEugenie Birch
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
- ReviewsMelissa Holbrook Pierson
The Place You Love is Gone
