ARH309H1 Chapter : ARH309 Reading Notes Wk 7
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Arh309 ethics week 7 reading notes: king process vs. preservation. National trust for historic preservation, advocates of preservation, says that the advisory. Council on historic preservation is preoccupied with process": council doesn"t care about outcome as long as all the i"s" are dotted and the t"s" crossed. Results in achp being unsure of its life"s purpose, devoting less intellectual attention to the section 106 process than to the formulation of widely ignored policy recommendations favoring better preservation. Achp should not be ashamed for emphasizing process: stake out a position as a proponent of good process, irrespective of outcome. Cultural resource managers are expected to be proponents of the resource" and when they cannot achieve what they think to be good preservation, they feel bad about it. Not to say that he doesn"t believe in the importance of preservation favors keeping historic properties with us and making good use of them.
