The Beaufort Preservation Manual

Résumé du livre

The Manual, though it expresses clear preferences for specific materials and methods, accepts that a wide variety of approaches were/are likely to be applied to the preservation of Beaufort's historic assets. It maintains an openness to a variety of architectural expression, in the belief that cities are as much about diversity as they are about architectural excellence. Above and beyond the basic goal of preventing destruction of the physical as well as the intangible assets of a historic district, design guidelines have as their. primary goal, the management of change, rather than the prevention of change. Design guidelines have the potential to prevent architectural disaster, bit if they are not flexibly and judiciously applied they also have the potential to erode the diversity that they are intended to protect. --from Introduction.