UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC1658806
Format:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118508121
Series Statement:
Historic Building Conservation Series
Note:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: History and Theory -- 1: What is it about gardens that you want to conserve? -- 2: The National Trust approach to garden conservation -- Why conserve gardens? -- The National Trust and gardens -- Historically significant gardens -- A roll call of artistic genius -- National Trust Acquisition criteria -- Plants and their significance -- Conservation approaches -- Development of National Trust conservation policy and practice -- Conservation - management influences -- Evidence -- Restoration -- Re-creation -- Flower garden conservation -- Access and conservation -- Financial implications -- Staffing levels -- Continual development/Innovation -- Conclusion -- 3: The nature of gardens and their significance -- Introduction -- Defining gardens -- Approach to conservation -- 4: Some Olla Podrida from the diary of a garden historian -- Diary entry March 2011 - Crom Castle -- The house and immediate gardens -- The site of the old house -- The water and the eye-catchers -- The walled garden -- Diary entry September 2011 - A visit to Castle Drogo on the edge of Dartmoor -- Diary entry: February 2012 Stourhead - a classical Elysium set in a picturesque landscape -- Diary entry from March 2012 - Sissinghurst -- Diary entry November 2012, Nostell Priory, Yorkshire -- Thoughts on the design and its possible intent -- Diary entry March 2013 - Attingham Park, Shropshire -- Addendum - The Walled Gardens and their surrounds -- 5: On design and process -- 6: Evolution of principles for the conservation of gardens and designed landscapes -- Older approaches to conservation -- Historicist -- Modernist -- Restoration by charter - The desire for accuracy -- The public purse -- Restoration principles in the 1980s -- Aids to accuracy: garden archaeology and conjectural detailing
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Conservation thinking today -- Philosophical background -- The benefit of experience -- Acceptance of change -- New work and adaptation -- Restoration in the 2010s -- Summary -- 7: Conservation of garden buildings -- Introduction -- The desktop study -- Stowe, Buckinghamshire -- Temple of Concord and Victory -- Temple of Friendship -- The Chinese House -- The New Inn -- Croome Park -- Ecological investigation -- Dunstall Castle -- Pirton Castle -- Panorama -- 8: 'Perished Perches': historic garden furniture -- 9: The history and the future of public parks -- 10: The history and aesthetic development of the cemetery and related conservation issues -- Cemetery, burial ground, graveyard or churchyard? -- The social and aesthetic context for the earliest English cemeteries -- The sublime and commercial cemetery in early nineteenth-century England -- The early commercial cemeteries of the Metropolis -- The transition from private to public burial provision -- Municipal or 'Burial Board' cemeteries -- Twentieth-century changes in cemetery aesthetics -- Conservation issues affecting cemeteries -- Part II: Survey and Assessment -- 11: Researching historic parks and gardens -- Storage and reference system -- First steps -- Repositories -- Maps and plans -- Private estate papers -- Other material -- Local authority records -- Library -- Copyright libraries and publications available online -- 12: Defining significance and developing a conservation philosophy -- Significance -- Examples of significance and conservation philosophy -- Pitzhanger Manor and Walpole Park in Ealing -- Wicksteed Park, Kettering, Northamptonshire -- Alexandra Road, Camden, London -- Significance -- 13: Science and craft in understanding historic gardens and their management -- Introduction -- Recognising a garden's objectives and the changing role from private to public
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Dangers in intellectualising the process of gardening -- The literature as a source of information on past practices of gardening -- The place of science in managing historic gardens -- Craft skills -- Period correctness -- 14: Garden archaeology -- 15: Conservation arboriculture: the natural art of tree management in historic landscapes -- Introduction -- Tree time and human time -- Necessity - mother of arboricultural invention -- Dead wood - hidden life -- Integrating vernacular, modern and conservation arboriculture -- Acknowledgements -- 16: The use of aerial photographs for conservation and research -- Ways of seeing the evidence -- Sources -- Historic aerial photographs and landscape change -- Newer technology -- Archaeological mapping and landscape analysis -- Conservation and heritage management -- Acknowledgements -- Part III: Conservation and Management -- 17: Values in heritage management: conservation plans and beyond -- Introduction -- Valuable and significant . . . to whom? -- Values as defined in English Heritage's Conservation Principles -- Guidance on the subject -- The process in a little more detail -- The scope of CMPs and the principle of proportionality -- Conservation plans in practice -- Some conclusions -- 18: Developing a conservation management plan -- Gaining understanding through research -- Research: written material -- Research: map material -- Research: images -- Gaining understanding through a site survey -- Gaining understanding through analysis -- 'Significance' -- Defining issues -- Policies -- Management action plan -- Gazetteer -- Appendices -- 19: Public parks and their conservation -- Park movement - first phase -- Influences on Public Park design -- Turn of the century and inter-war period -- Recreation and public health -- Park systems, chain parks and parkways -- Post World War II
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Parks in the 1970s and 80s -- Buildings -- New buildings -- Bandstands -- Palm houses and winter gardens -- Statues and monuments -- Planting: trees and shrubs -- Flowers -- Conclusion -- 20: Conserving historic parks and gardens in a changing climate -- The climate is changing -- Learning from past extreme weather events and other threats -- Floods, droughts and temperature extremes -- Storms -- Pests and diseases -- Planning adaptation in the historic park and garden -- Conservation management plans -- Trees in a changing climate -- Managing water features in a changing climate, and sea-level rise issues -- The climate change management experts -- Beyond the historic park and garden -- Conclusions -- 21: Conserving the grey? Management of vegetation without an end-point in culturally important landscapes -- 22: 'Plants are fashioned by cultivation, man by education' -- Introduction -- The Craftsman - 'Learning How' as well as 'Learning That'5 -- The rise of the Victorian head gardener -- Learning the skills of cultivation -- Is there a solution? -- Conclusion -- 23: Costing and contracts for historic gardens and landscapes -- Introduction -- Costing the project -- Contractual obligations -- 24: Constraints and working on site: some practical and contractual problems -- Topographic survey -- Visual survey and assessment of the site -- Covered and hidden items -- Drawings -- Health and safety considerations -- Programme and sequencing works -- Choosing materials -- Choosing contractors -- Protection -- Temporary access routes and hard-standing areas -- Disposal of surplus subsoil -- Services, utilities and drainage -- Repair -- Part IV: The Legislative Framework -- 25: Designed landscapes and national designation -- Introduction -- The first edition of the Register of Parks and Gardens -- Improving the Register 1993-2000
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Heritage Protection Reform and Unified Designation -- Revised Criteria and publication of Selection Guides -- Designed landscapes and the National Heritage Protection Plan -- Conclusion -- 26: Conservation legislation in the UK -- 27: Historic parks and gardens: the planning system and other conservation tools -- The National Planning context for the conservation of designed landscapes -- National designation for the historic environment -- Listed buildings -- Scheduled Ancient Monuments -- Registered Battlefields -- Registered Parks and Gardens -- Other useful national designations -- Other useful local designations -- Conclusion -- 28: The role of the Heritage Lottery Fund in the conservation of historic gardens and designed landscapes -- The Urban Parks Programme/Parks for People -- Conservation plans at the heart of HLF approach -- Funding for training -- Cemeteries, country parks, seaside promenades and urban squares -- HLF's changing role -- 29: Legal protection for structures, trees and wildlife -- Introduction -- Mainstream planning control -- The need for planning permission -- Environmental impact assessment -- Historic structures -- Protection for listed structures -- Conservation areas -- Scheduled monuments -- Urgent repairs -- Protected trees -- Trees and the law generally -- Tree preservation orders -- Works to protected trees -- Trees in conservation areas -- Wildlife -- 30: Easy access to historic landscapes -- 31: The international context - the European Landscape Convention1 -- The origins of the ELC -- What does the ELC do? -- What progress has been made with the Florence Convention since 2000? -- The ELC in the UK -- Progress since 2006 in the UK -- The ELC and the historic gardens and designed landscapes -- 32: Cultural landscapes and the World Heritage Convention -- What are cultural landscapes?
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The emergence of World Heritage cultural landscapes
Additional Edition:
Print version Harney, Marion Gardens and Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2014 ISBN 9781118508145
Language:
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