Why Preservation Matters – Max Page
Max Page, University of Massachusetts Amherst
April 5, 2017 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Betts Auditorium
Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities
Mellon Book Talk
Max Page, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussants: Esther da Costa Meyer, Art & Archeology; Eduardo Luis Rodriguez, PLAS Visiting Fellow; Alison Isenberg, History
Max Page is a professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction, and winner of the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize.
In Why Preservation Matters, Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role in building more-just communities, it must transform itself to stand against gentrification, work more closely with the environmental sustainability movement, and challenge societies to confront their pasts. Touching on the history of the preservation movement in the United States and ranging the world, Page searches for inspiration on how to rejuvenate historic preservation for the next fifty years. This illuminating work will be widely read by urban planners, historians, and anyone with a stake in the past.
