- The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Public Heritage as Social Practice
- Creating Universal Value: The UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Its Fifth Decade
- The Suffocated Cultural Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Protected Areas
- Sustainable Conservation of Urban Heritage: The Contribution of Governance-Focused Studies
- Heritage and the Politics of Cooperation
- Culture, Heritage, and the Politics of Becoming
- Problematizing the Idea of Heritage Management
- Heritage and Management, Professional Utopianism, Administrative Naiveté, and Organizational Uncertainty at the Shipwrecks of Pisa
- Accounting for What We Treasure: Economic Valuation of Public Heritage
- Cultural Heritage: Capital, Commons, and Heritages
- Heritage as Remaking: Locating Heritage in the Contemporary World
- Culturally Reflexive Stewardship: Conserving Ways of Life
- Neoliberalism and the Equivocations of Empire
- Public Heritage and the Promise of the Digital
- On the Need for a Nuanced Understanding of “Community” in Heritage Policy and Practice
- “What Could Be More Reasonable?” Collaboration in Colonial Contexts
- The Special Responsibility of Public Spaces to Dismantle White Supremacist Historical Narratives
- Public Heritage as Transformative Experience: The Co-occupation of Place and Decision-Making
- The Social Sciences: What Role in Conservation?
- People in Place: Local Planning to Preserve Diverse Cultures
- Heritage as an Element of the Scenescape
- Contesting the Aesthetic Construction of Community: The New Suburban Landscape
- Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene
- Public Heritage in the Symbiocene
- Mapping Authenticity: Cognition and Emotion in Public Heritage
- Understanding Well-Being: A Mechanism for Measuring the Impact of Heritage Practice on Well-Being
- Effects of Conversations with Sites of Public Heritage on Collective Memory
- Intergenerational Learning: A Tool for Building and Transforming Cultural Heritage
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter considers community conflicts arising over the aesthetic character of homes when advocates use government policies and regulations to impose historic preservation values. Historic preservation is organized as a cosmology that values and seeks to restore original architectural forms as representations of history. Homeowner advocates for preservation are motivated by their own home restoration experiences with material agency, while local municipalities employ “aesthetic governmentality” techniques with graphic codes to help shape homeowner perceptions and change aesthetic norms. Conflicts in two southern California cities illustrate how preservationist residents use regulations to actively protect houses against remodels by “uninformed” homeowners. In another city, affluent Chinese immigrants propose mansion-sized remodels of bungalow houses as a counter aesthetic to preservation. Each aesthetic promotes a distinct but also contrasting moral suburban landscape.
Keywords: heritage preservation, historic homes, preservation cosmology, significance, integrity, aesthetic governmentality, conflict, moral landscape, mansions
Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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- The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Public Heritage as Social Practice
- Creating Universal Value: The UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Its Fifth Decade
- The Suffocated Cultural Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Protected Areas
- Sustainable Conservation of Urban Heritage: The Contribution of Governance-Focused Studies
- Heritage and the Politics of Cooperation
- Culture, Heritage, and the Politics of Becoming
- Problematizing the Idea of Heritage Management
- Heritage and Management, Professional Utopianism, Administrative Naiveté, and Organizational Uncertainty at the Shipwrecks of Pisa
- Accounting for What We Treasure: Economic Valuation of Public Heritage
- Cultural Heritage: Capital, Commons, and Heritages
- Heritage as Remaking: Locating Heritage in the Contemporary World
- Culturally Reflexive Stewardship: Conserving Ways of Life
- Neoliberalism and the Equivocations of Empire
- Public Heritage and the Promise of the Digital
- On the Need for a Nuanced Understanding of “Community” in Heritage Policy and Practice
- “What Could Be More Reasonable?” Collaboration in Colonial Contexts
- The Special Responsibility of Public Spaces to Dismantle White Supremacist Historical Narratives
- Public Heritage as Transformative Experience: The Co-occupation of Place and Decision-Making
- The Social Sciences: What Role in Conservation?
- People in Place: Local Planning to Preserve Diverse Cultures
- Heritage as an Element of the Scenescape
- Contesting the Aesthetic Construction of Community: The New Suburban Landscape
- Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene
- Public Heritage in the Symbiocene
- Mapping Authenticity: Cognition and Emotion in Public Heritage
- Understanding Well-Being: A Mechanism for Measuring the Impact of Heritage Practice on Well-Being
- Effects of Conversations with Sites of Public Heritage on Collective Memory
- Intergenerational Learning: A Tool for Building and Transforming Cultural Heritage
- Index
