The conservation of historic libraries can be referred towards both the ancient book collections and buildings themselves. Heritage made paper are threaten by climate-induced deterioration risks such as cellulose hydrolysis. Several studies have investigated microclimate inside but comparisons difficult due to lack long-term observations uniformity in use standards risk assessment methods. For ...

Natural climate variation, such as that caused by volcanoes, is the basis for identifying anthropogenic climate change. However, knowledge of the history of volcanic activity is inadequate, particularly concerning the explosivity of specific events. Some material is deposited in ice cores, but the concentration of glacial sulfate does not distinguish between tropospheric and stratospheric erupt...

Preservation of the World Heritage Site and historic district in Paphos will ultimately depend upon understanding the interrelationship among a variety of cultural and natural parameters. Indeed, for tracing such a situation, a landscape analysis utilizing remote sensing and GIS technology is being conducted at the Paphos District area in Cyprus in the service of planning for a revitalized town...

The reconstruction of historic cities is a complicated challenge that has been faced using different principles diachronically. Historic have suffered severe damage are areas need to be replanned preserve their urban characteristics and adjust residents’ needs. This paper aims examine the preservation according terms Urban Landscape (HUL) principles, which consider centers as living organisms a...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2014 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 2,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 556–580. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract One of the most satisfying undertakings in library building design can be the expansion and remodeling of historic public libraries from the early twentieth century. However, although ...

Suzhou is one of China’s model cities due to its economic development in recent decades. Although the city deserves recognition for efforts urban heritage conservation, current preservation strategy only targets ancient and neglects separation entire landscape. This has become a huge hidden problem process Suzhou’s sustainable development. study, based on this background, explores problems plan...

Historic urban areas are a significant part of each city not only due to having irreplaceable cultural and social resources, but also due to their attractive patterns of life. They have being threatened by strong development trends. This paper aims to investigate the impacts of redevelopment trends in the historic city of Shiraz, Iran. The paper begins by highlighting historical development in ...

Surf breaks and surfing areas exemplify the human dimensions of coastal ecosystems—places connecting people nature from which history, culture, tradition, economic activity, even political conflict emerge. We employed a signature policy instrument American historic preservation, National Register Historic Places (National Register), as context to both evaluate ultimately recognize these connect...

One example of the combination structurally sound construction techniques and attention to pleasing aesthetics can be seen in guitarde, an elaborate type dormer that was developed Loire Valley France during eighteenth century. Although traditional methods joinery are still taught practiced, their use contemporary guitardes is uncommon. Historic preservation work insights provided by practices e...