On Stewardship and Preservation
We document stories of identity, culture and architectural heritage, and explore everyday strategies of environmental stewardship practiced by residents of local communities in Milwaukee. Such stories include how residents remember and maintain their homes, institutions, public spaces, gardens, and yards, how community members relate to the landscape, how they experience weather and nature, and how they care for flora and fauna. In short, we examine how residents of these neighborhoods envision and execute their role as stewards of their urban environment. We argue that rethinking the way we think about preservation, by integrating values of environmental stewardship, civic engagement, and sustainable development into the discourse of historic preservation, will require us to fundamentally reimagine the way we read architecture and the built environment.
Here are some examples of residents and community members describing practices of stewardship and preservation.
Here are some examples of residents and community members describing practices of stewardship and preservation.
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