Unit 1 Flashcards
Cultural Landscape
a geographic area, including cultural and natural resources, associated with a historic event, activity, or person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values
Historic Designed Landscape
landscape designed by professional using design principles or amateur within recognized style or tradition
Parks, campuses, or estates
Historic Designed Landscapes
Historic Vernacular Landscape
landscape defined by how it was shaped by its occupants; reflects physical, biological, and cultural character of
historic farm districts, rural villages, industrial complexes, or a single property
Historic Vernacular Landscapes
Historic Site
landscape associated with historic event, activity, or person
battlefields or presidents’ houses
Historic Sites
Ethnographic Landscape
landscape with natural and cultural resources defined as heritage resources by associated people
contemporary settlements, religious sacred sites, or massive geological structures
Ethnographic Landscapes
Preservation
act of applying measures necessary to sustain the existing form, integrity, and materials of an historic property
stabilizing property, ongoing maintenance and repair, no new construction, limited upgrading of systems
Preservation tactics
Rehabilitation
act of making a property usable while preserving portions which convey historic or cultural value
repair, alteration, and addition
Rehabilitation tactics
Restoration
act of accurately depicting the form, features, and character of a property as they appeared at a particular time
removal of features from other periods, reconstruction of missing features, limited upgrading of systems
Restoration tactics
