Preservation Laws and Environmental Policy. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

A survey of the laws and regulations that affect preservation of the built environment nationally, regionally, and locally. Includes considerations of fundamentals of legal protection for and regulation of historic cultural resources in light of contemporary attitudes toward the historic environment, and the economic bases of the use of historic buildings and sites examined in terms of contemporary social and cultural attitudes that determine effective strategies of preservation action. (Formerly titled Legal and Economic Aspects of Preservation.) This course has Differential Tuition.