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Go Fisher!
Getting your ACT together
Conceptual Perameters
Name that intervention!
Why so picky?
100
This governmental service expounded the policy that historic character of a building encompasses the overall resource and not just exterior facade.
What is the National Park Service?
100
Described as environmental legislation, concerned with what one might call the cultural ecology of America's built environment. Its thrust is to put limitations on government's use of tax dollars to alter the environment.
What is The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966?
100
A more precise way of saying this generic term is the retrieval and recycling of the historic environment, or the curatorial management of the built world.
What is historic preservation?
100
This type of intervention describes the process of returning the artifact to the physical condition it would have been at some previous stage of its morphological development. Intervention a this level is more radical than simple preservation.
What is Restoration?
100
A rule followed by the Historic Sites Survey to ensure that buildings were not prematurely allowed admittance onto the National Register. This was an attempt to make decisions as least controversial as possible.
What is the fifty-year rule.
200
In hopes of improving the quality of preservation work, the treatment of historic masonry and the rehabilitation of this architectural element are two areas where federal government has expended considerable effort in raising the quality of preservation practice.
What are windows?
200
This act was passed by congress in 1976, provided the first major preservation tax-incentive system for certified income-producing properties.
What is Tax Reform Act?
200
Fitch argues that the domain has been greater with large objects than with small ones because of the discovery that an individual site or monument cannot be isolated from this.
What is its environmental context?
200
This type of intervention is when the building can only be saved through piece-by-piece reassembly, either in sitsu or on a new site. This is normally the consequesnce of disasters such as war or earthquakes.
What is Reconstitution?
200
Considered the beginning of the fifty-year rule. This also established the Historic Sites Survey.
What is the Historic Sites Act of 1935?
300
Preservation Briefs was published to explain the Secretary of the Interior's standards and guidelines as they relate to historic properties, and has always suggesting this 'commonsense plan of action' instead of replacement whenever possible.
What is repair?
300
This generous Act replaced the Tax Reform Act in 1981 and offered developers an allowable tax credit of 25 percent on certified historic structures, 20 percent on buildings 40 years and older, and 15 percent on those 30 years old and older.
What is Economic Recovery Tax Act?
300
This term describes the internal migration of higher-income populations replacing low-income people in an area.
What is gentrification?
300
This type of intervention implies the construction of an exact copy of a still standing building on a a site removed form the prototype. In other words, the new building co-exists with the original.
What is Replication?
300
Designed to give moral support for historic sites because the Secretary of the Interior decided it was impossible for the government to acquire, manage, or support sites financially.
What is the National Registry of Historic Landmarks?
400
This movement was identified as someday helping to promote repair over replacement of building material.
What is the sustainability movement?
400
This Act stressed federal responsibility for preservation and required environmental impact studies to focus the attention of federal agencies on the effect their projects might have on their surroundings.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
400
Boston, Philadelphia, Annapolis, and San Francisco are all places in which historic district preservations have brought what new industry to town?
What is tourism?
400
This intervention describes the re-creation of vanished buildings on their original site.The reconstructed building acts as the tangible , three-dimentional surrogate of the original structure, its physical form being established by archeological , archival, and literary evidence. This is one of the most radical levels of intervention.
What is Reconstruction?
400
This marks the first organized effort to preserve a building for architectural, rather than historic, reasons.
What is the Robie House?
500
Fisher argues that the art of 'this' has been so successful over the past thirty years that, at times, it inhibits the conservation of real historic fabric.
What is replicating?
500
This piece of legislation of 1966 created a policy of preserving natural and man-made sites along highway routes.
What is Department of Transportastion Act?
500
The main deficiency of this type of artifact is the elitist, upperclass bias of their interpretation, educational systems, and publications.
What are historic house museums?
500
This is often the only economic way in which old buildings can be saved, by changing them to the requirements of the new tenants.
What is adaptive use?
500
A number of sites that have been admitted to the National Register prior to the fifty or twenty-five year rules. Being in a position considered to have transcendental historical importance.
What is recognizing the importance and significance of American Presidents?