19th Annual Preservation Conference, Preservation Now!

Written by hdc on Jan 25, 2013

Preservation Now!  Today’s Victories, Losses and Ongoing Battles!

UPDATE! Attendees eligible for 3 AIA LUs

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The 2013 Preservation Conference takes its inspiration from recent trends in preservation and the relationship between development and preservation in New York City. The keynote, panels and discussions will address several case studies that showcase how preservation has brought positive change to New York City and made it the city we enjoy today.
The Conference will consist of speakers highlighting both broad case studies as well as smaller, neighborhood-based battles. In the end, all attendees will come away better informed about how preservation works in New York City.
A distinguished group of preservationists, educators and community advocates from across New York City’s five boroughs and beyond will address these issues. The Conference consists of two morning presentations and panel discussions with a keynote address the previous evening.
During the Conference, attendees will also hear directly from local advocates who are working directly on preservation campaigns. Selected groups will present relevant projects and programs as part of HDC’s Annual Preservation Fair in the gallery adjoining the Conference auditorium throughout the morning.

Preservation Now! Schedule

Keynote and Opening Reception
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center
Katie Murphy Amphitheatre
West 27th Street and Seventh Avenue
Manhattan

Friday, March 1, 2013
6:00-9:00pm

Might This Be the Best of Times?: A Consideration on the Future of Historic Preservation
Keynote Address by Dr. Clement Alexander Price,
Vice Chair, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History and Director; Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
Historic Preservation efforts over the past generation in the United States have been complicated by the powerful tug of a sturdy tradition of prestige and authority against rapidly changing realities in public sensibilities over the nation’s history and memory. That which was once considered the core narrative in American history, as revealed in words, images and places, is now challenged by a revolutionary change in how America’s past is researched, constructed, written about, and seen. The History Wars of the 1980s and 1990s are over, replaced, interestingly enough, by a broad consensus that the making of American democracy, and its tributaries, has been marked by intense struggle over the meaning and purpose of the nation’s past and the weaving of new voices into the telling of the nation’s story. With the cessation of the History Wars, and the popularization of an unprecedentedly complicated and contentious American historical narrative, there is an opportunity for the historic preservation movement to become an essential part of the New American History. A reception will follow the Keynote Address.

Conference and Preservation Fair
New York Law School
185 West Broadway Manhattan

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Registration & Coffee – 8:30-9:30am

During the coffee and registration hour attendees will meet with civic and community groups who are working on neighborhood-based preservation campaigns. More than a dozen organizations will present their current efforts, including posters, images, postcards, petitions, brochures and other educational and advocacy literature. Come meet your fellow preservationists and learn about efforts to preserve our city.

Preservation Campaigns in the Public Sector – 9:30-11:00am

This panel will feature several prominent speakers on the topic of past and present preservation campaigns of significance. Jack Goldstein, former director of governance policy for Actors’ Equity Association, will discuss the creation and success of the Broadway Theater District, which helped revitalize the Times Square area; Andrew Scott Dolkart, James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Director of the school’s Historic Preservation Program, will highlight his work documenting the history and evolution of the Garment Center, an area of Manhattan which is rapidly changing; and architectural historian Kerri Culhane will examine the recently proposed East Midtown Rezoning, which aims to drastically upzone the area allowing for massive new skyscrapers but may threaten some of the significant undesignated architecture in the area.

Break and Preservation Fair-11:00-11:30am

Preservation Campaigns and Neighborhoods- 11:30am–1:00pm

In recent years, neighborhoods across the city have faced massive new development while also campaigning to preserve their irreplaceable historic resources. Three panelists will examine three such examples, highlighting the ways each area has been affected. Lacey Tauber, Interim Academic Coordinator for Pratt Institute’s graduate program in Historic Preservation & Planning, will assess the 2005 Greenpoint and Williamsburg Rezoning initiative, examining how it radically changed the neighborhood for better and worse; Donald Brennan of Brennan Real Estate LLC will use numbers and statistics to present the changes of several historic Brooklyn neighborhoods and show through financial analysis how preservation has made these communities more desirable; and long-time Harlem resident, architectural preservationist and historian John Reddick will present In Context: Harlem’s Past & Future, which focuses on the area’s architectural and cultural uniqueness and the sometimes contentious relationships that thwart their preservation and development.

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