Protecting Suburban America: Gentrification, Advocacy and the Historic Imaginary

Synopsis

1. Framing Preservation -- 2. Discovering Material Agency: Making The Preservation Homeowner -- 3. Restoration Strategies: Imagining The Past, And Reconstructing Historic Meaning -- 4. Historic Preservation As Cosmology: Municipal Regulations And City Dynamics -- 5. Local Level Preservation And Exclusion: Traditional Elites -- 6. The Gentry Move In: Education, Reform, And Advocacy -- 7. Immigrant Challenges: Communicating Preservation Values Across The Cultural Divide In Alhambra -- 8. Toward An Anthropology Of The Protected Suburb. Denise Lawrence-zuniga. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 181-187) And Index.