{"id":1507,"date":"2010-12-08T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2010-12-12T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T16:48:56","slug":"bluestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/bluestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cd1003-n9628-dan-bluestone.jpg\"><br \/>\nDan Bluestone&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Buildings-Landscapes-Memory-Historic-Preservation\/dp\/0393733181\">&#8220;Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation&#8221;<\/a> is available. The author is pictured above at a book release gathering at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albemarlehistory.org\/\">Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society<\/a>, 12\/3\/10.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicwoolenmills.org\/zoning\/cpc-hba01.html\">urban renewal era<\/a> highway through Charlottesville&#8217;s central park presses ahead by a 3-2 margin and <a href=\"http:\/\/readinform.com\/feature\/sustainability-preservation-and-craft\/\">buildings fall<\/a>.<br \/>\nMaybe our leaders can do some reading and think again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The process whereby individuals, institutions and communities choose to wield both private and public power to highlight certain histories, and to ignore or render invisible others, is a critical dimension of historic preservation and public history.&#8221;&#8211;Bluestone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The religion of progress has a central role in driving the predicament of industrial civilization because the dead end of dependence on rapidly depleting fossil fuels can&#8217;t be escaped by continuing on the path we&#8217;ve been following for the last three centuries or so.&#8211;John Michael Greer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Long-Descent-Users-Guide-Industrial\/dp\/0865716099\">The Long Descent<\/a>, pg 69<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Bluestone&#8217;s new book &#8220;Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation&#8221; is available. The author is pictured above at a book release gathering at Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, 12\/3\/10. Meanwhile, the urban renewal era highway through Charlottesville&#8217;s central park presses ahead by a 3-2 margin and buildings fall. Maybe our leaders can do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/bluestone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluestone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}