No comments about Uppark Restored.

No comments about Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks.

1 comments about Historic Building Façades: The Manual for Maintenance and Rehabilitation (Preservation Press).

1. This book has a very good desription of how to restore old facades and outlines numerous possiblities of why the facade my have failed. The pictures and graphics also help to complete the book in that it gives great examples to link the nomiclature and pictures together.

No comments about Digital Heritage: Applying Digital Imaging to Cultural Heritage.

1 comments about Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage.

1. This is a fascinating and entertaining account of the successes and failures of local conservation and historic preservation groups over a period of almost a century. The photographs and names in the footnotes brought back many memories, but showed me how little attention I had paid to what was happening in the historic town I grew up in. Highly recommended to any one who has ever been to San Antonio, also those who are facing conservation battles in their own locale.

No comments about Windsor Ablaze!: The Windsor Castle Fire and Restoration.

No comments about Historic resource study: Pony Express National Historic Trail.

2 comments about Grand Central: Gateway to a Million Lives.

1. This is one of the bests books about grand central and its surroundings ever published, not doubt you'll be 100% satisfied with it.



2. This is a wonderful book on a magnificent building. This book has wonderful period photos as well as recent images and the text is highly informative. It's hard to believe that this building was once slated for demolition, thanks to New Yorkers like Jackie O, Grand Central was saved. Everyone who visits New York City should venture into this singular station, it embodies New York and you get a real feel for Gilded Age grandeur. If you have any interest in magnificent buildings or just good books in general then I believe you will not be disappointed.

No comments about Timber Decay in Buildings: The Conservation Approach to Treatment (Guides for Practitioners).

3 comments about The Science of Saving Venice.

1. It is short but very informative, the pictures are great, the facts are incredible ... I love this book, it made me want to go to Venice before it becomes a history that we try guess where was it located on the map ...



2. Venice is a city with a glorious history but a very uncertain future. How to even have a future is the subject of this book. It presents a nontechnical description of the problem. Well, multiple problems. One is that buildings continue to subside into the silt. Another is the erosion of the wetlands around Venice. These act as a buffer against storms. Americans will note the resemblence to New Orleans. But the main problem is still hypothetical, though becoming less so with each additional year. Global warming. If sea levels rise by at least 8cm, or as much as 90cm, then we have a sticky wicket.
   
   Various solutions are explored in the book. Barriers help reduce flooding. But the cost can be enormous if sea levels rise and storms worsen in frequency and intensity. Overall, the book cannot be read with optimism.



3. I have never been to Venice, nor did I manage to visit New Orleans before Katrina almost removed it entirely, but the plight that both of them were doomed to from their birth fascinates my environmental mind. Both cities were founded in wetlands out of some necessity. Both have survived until now because of constant fiddling with nature, although a significant part of each city's population has given up on the difficulties of living there.
   
   Through the years, many attempts to engineer survival have turned out to be disastrous for both cities. The solution to just let them go is not acceptable for all of us who appreciate their influence on world culture. This book tells the story of Venice and its attempts in the past, present and future to save a cultural treasure. Its concepts apply equally well to New Orleans.
   
   The book systematically tells the historical, economic, geological, geographical, biological and meteorological reasons that Venice is slowly sinking into the Adriatic sea. But it also tells about the attempts to save it, some of which have been disastrous, some have yet to be attempted. Certainly those who are planning the rebuilding of New Orleans should consult the scientists who are trying to save Venice.
   
   The authors explain the problems and solutions to the lay reader using more than 100 color illustrations - drawings, artwork, photography and diagrams - and just enough words to explain each concept on a single page spread.
   
   Now I have a great desire to investigate the lagoons around Venice and the city itself before it is lost.