Browsing by Subject "historic preservation"
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(2022-10-27)The Center for Heritage Conservation (CHC) from Texas A&M University (TAMU) conducted laser scanning studies at Alcatraz Island from 2011 to 2016. Survey consisted of two techniques: total station survey and 3D laser ...
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(2022-12-10)The point cloud medium in digital survey has been little explored in its overlap with philosophy and theory. Exploring this overlap between the point cloud and philosophy can affect our approach and consideration of such ...
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(Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies (Roberts, 2020). Forum Journal, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2020-03-21)"To validate that a place exists or is worthy of listing as a significant cultural resource, it is the fundamental practice of planning and preservation professionals to establish measurable, documented facts: determining ...
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(Texas Heritage, 2017)Often a destination at the end of an isolated dirt road, though some-times found in urban locations, Freedom Colonies are hidden African-American cultural legacies. These endangered communities are in need of greater ...
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(Columbia University Press, 2020-03)"And Andrea Roberts explains how the Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas, another online mapping tool, serves as a platform for collaborators to collect and store data about Black settlements. But as Roberts asserts, rendering ...
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(2009-05-15)This study assesses the efforts of the State Historic Preservation Office in relating Historic Preservation (HP) with Heritage Tourism (HT) against principles of sustainability. It also seeks to contribute toward an ...
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(2014-01-16)The use of ultrasonic phased array (UPA) technology for inspection of the trunnion bearing pin of the 100-year old Salmon Bay Bascule Bridge is the focus of this research. To thoroughly investigate the bearing pin, two ...
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(2021-04-29)This project is an interdisciplinary, qualitative study of historic preservation policies and practices in an 800-year-old hutong and courtyard house neighborhood that is designated as a historical and cultural conservation ...
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(1993)Revitalization is not only good for the historic preservation of a town's architecture, it is also a salable commodity. A central business district that has been restored with a sense of continuity and faithfulness to the ...
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(2020-07-07)Bibliography of academic and practitioner articles and statements about historic preservation and social justice. The list was developed in 2020 by The Texas Freedom Colonies Project research team and will be updated annually.
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(2023-04-05)The Caudill House is a Mid-century Modern residence in College Station, Texas. William (Bill) Caudill (1914-1983) designed the residence while working as a founding partner of the architectural firm, Caudill, Rowlett, ...
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(2022-04-19)This dissertation examines social change in the Southwest within the intersection of gender and “Indianness” in the tourism industry, through the lens of the Fred Harvey Company between the 1880s-1940s. Fred Harvey was an ...
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(2022-02-25)“The Texas Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements& Cemeteries” (the Grant) funded through the Trust provided $50,000 to support engagement, mobile cemetery identification and ...
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(Buildings and Landscapes, 2019-12-15)Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander's We Shall Independent Be (2008), which contemplated the relationship between American ideals such as freedom and black space creation, advanced the validity of vernacular African ...
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(National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2017-07-20)Over the next six weeks the Forum blog will be publishing stories that respond to the question: When does historic preservation become social justice? We start with an introduction by Andrea Roberts, founder of the Texas ...
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(2012-02-14)The use of a wireless sensor network (WSN) to monitor an historic structure under rehabilitation is the focus of this research. To thoroughly investigate the issue, two main objectives are addressed: the development of a ...