Название: Gardens and Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation
Автор: Harney M.
Издательство: Wiley Blackwell
Год: 2014
Страниц: 477
Формат: PDF
Размер: 70 Мб
Язык: English

This comprehensive guide on historic garden and landscape conservation will help landscape professionals familiarise themselves with what the conservation of historic gardens, garden structures and designed landscapes encompasses.
The aim of the series is to introduce each aspect of conservation and to provide concise, basic and up-to-date knowledge within five volumes, sufficient for the professional to appreciate the subject better and to know where to seek further help.
Gardens & Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation is an essential guide for everyone with an interest in the conservation of historic gardens and designed landscapes worldwide. The latest assessment of the origins, scope and impact of gardens and designed landscapes is vital reading. Covering history and theory, survey and assessment, conservation and management and the legislative framework the book considers all aspects of garden and landscape conservation and related issues. It explores the challenge of conserving these important sites and surviving physical remains and a conservation movement which must understand, protect and interpret those remains.

Contributors
Introduction
Part I: History and Theory
What is it about gardens that you want to conserve?
The National Trust approach to garden conservation
The nature of gardens and their signifi cance
Some Olla Podrida from the diary of a garden historian
On design and process
Evolution of principles for the conservation of gardens and designed landscapes
Conservation of garden buildings
'Perished Perches': historic garden furniture
The history and the future of public parks
The history and aesthetic development of the cemetery and related conservation issues
Part II: Survey and Assessment
Researching historic parks and gardens
Defi ning signifi cance and developing a conservation philosophy
Science and craft in understanding historic gardens and their management
Garden archaeology
Conservation arboriculture: the natural art of tree management in historic landscapes
The use of aerial photographs for conservation and research
Part III: Conservation and Management
Values in heritage management: conservation plans and beyond
Developing a conservation management plan
Public parks and their conservation
Conserving historic parks and gardens in a changing climate
Conserving the grey? Management of vegetation without an end-point in culturally important landscapes
'Plants are fashioned by cultivation, man by education'
Costing and contracts for historic gardens and landscapes
Constraints and working on site: some practical and contractual problems
Part IV: The Legislative Framework
Designed landscapes and national designation
Conservation legislation in the UK
Historic parks and gardens: the planning system and other conservation tools
The role of the Heritage Lottery Fund in the conservation of historic gardens and designed landscapes
Legal protection for structures, trees and wildlife
Easy access to historic landscapes
The international context - the European Landscape Convention
Cultural landscapes and the World Heritage Convention
Why should there be any international law relating to monuments and cultural landscapes?
Part V: Conservation in Action: Case Studies
'... with great art, cost, and diligens ...' - the reconstruction of the Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle
Paradise restored - a case study exploring the restoration of three of Hestercombe's period gardens
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
Stourhead - the conservation and management of a 'Living work of art'
Hackfall, Yorkshire
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
The Roof Gardens, Kensington, London
Lowther Castle & Gardens
Monticello
The Gardens of the Alhambra
Central Park, New York City
Index

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