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This book is based on the author’s 33 years of intensive fieldwork. It chronicles a major movement that shaped the preservation policy in Japan in the 1980s a

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its future Eve

At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across Amer