Charting an Uncertain Future for National Heritage Areas
March 5, 2022
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Spanning two Canadian provinces, Pimachiowin Aki was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2018. What is most noteworthy about the site is its innovative management approach that stems from a joint understanding of nature and culture via a bottom-up partnership between four Anishinaabe First Nations communities and provincial government representatives.
By Joe McCauley In 1940, Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again, a novel about finding one’s identity in the modern world. In popular
An overview of the recent George Wright Society Conference in Denver with an emphasis on cultural landscapes and a short video feature on Indigenous Cultural Landscapes in the Chesapeake. Click through to learn more and watch.
Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.
This Fall Meet Up on Large Landscapes Summer is the time to plan for the upcoming conference season. Until recently there have been limited opportunities
Spanning two Canadian provinces, Pimachiowin Aki was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2018. What is most noteworthy about the site is its innovative management approach that stems from a joint understanding of nature and culture via a bottom-up partnership between four Anishinaabe First Nations communities and provincial government representatives.
By Joe McCauley In 1940, Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again, a novel about finding one’s identity in the modern world. In popular
An overview of the recent George Wright Society Conference in Denver with an emphasis on cultural landscapes and a short video feature on Indigenous Cultural Landscapes in the Chesapeake. Click through to learn more and watch.
Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.
This Fall Meet Up on Large Landscapes Summer is the time to plan for the upcoming conference season. Until recently there have been limited opportunities