Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / AASLH
Pages: 192
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Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7591-2051-8 • Hardback • March 2012 • $99.00 • (£76.00)
978-0-7591-2052-5 • Paperback • March 2012 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
978-0-7591-2053-2 • eBook • March 2012 • $47.50 • (£37.00)
Bill Schmickle is a past chair of the Annapolis Historic Preservation Commission and was a cofounder of the Oak Ridge Historic District (North Carolina). He is author of The Politics of Historic Districts (AltaMira 2006).
Introduction: Preservation & the Politics of Change
Chapter 1. Glimpsing Our Political Future
Chapter 2. The Road to Crisis in Historic Districts
Chapter 3. Our District Designation Story
Chapter 4. A Community Compact for Rooted Growth
Chapter 5. Thinking like a Districtist
Chapter 6. Delivering Good Government
Chapter 7. The Temptation of Administrative Legalism
Chapter 8. The Crisis of Second Generation Districts
Chapter 9. Rooters & Rotters: A New Political Who’s Who
Chapter 10. Our Strategic Line
Chapter 11. Dealing with Preservation Ideologues
Chapter 12. Political Personalities: Who Leads?
Chapter 13. The Stages of Declining Historic Districts
Chapter 14. The Politics of Decision Making: Defensible & Defendable
Chapter 15. Enforcement: The Third Rail of Preservation Politics
Chapter 16. The Politics of Appeals
Chapter 17. Choosing Our Battles
Chapter 18. Transformative Education
Chapter 19. Our Sustaining Vision
Selected Glossary
For years, Bill Schmickle has forced us to take a hard look at how historic preservation works in the real world, and he’s at it again. There are signs that the way preservationists have always done business may put us out of business. The world is changing, and Bill is our Paul Revere.
— Myrick Howard, president of Preservation North Carolina
Schmickle addresses compellingly the question that gnaws at every local historical district supporter: Why doesn’t the community love us any more? Drawing on examples from across the country to illustrate the plight of established historical districts, Schmickle uses trenchant prose laced with wisdom and wit to show how our historic districts can continue to survive and thrive.
— Gregory A. Stiverson, former president and CEO, Historic Annapolis Foundation
• Can be used as a companion book to Bill Schmickle’s The Politics of Historic Districts: A Primer for Grassroots Activists. Learn more here.
Read the June 5th front-page Earl Kelly-written article in the Capital Newspaper (Annapolis, MD) on Preservation Politics.
Annapolis author: Historic districts may be dying