[Re]Evaluating significance: the environmental and cultural value in older and historic buildings.

@article{Merlino2014ReEvaluatingST,
  title={[Re]Evaluating significance: the environmental and cultural value in older and historic buildings.},
  author={Kathryn Rogers Merlino},
  journal={The Public historian},
  year={2014},
  volume={36 3},
  pages={
          70-85
        }
}
  • K. Merlino
  • Published 1 August 2014
  • Sociology
  • The Public historian
Traditionally the value of a building is measured through the historical, cultural, or architectural significance that has emerged from the established traditions of historic preservation policy in the United States. Although the designation of historic properties is a critical venue to save our most historically significant buildings, it does not account for those that fall outside of the established categories of significance. Accounting for the environmental value of buildings and… 
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