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Resource Surveys and Context Statements: From Process to Product
Learning Objectives
- Identify key components of historic contexts and approaches to developing contexts, including the multiple property documentation format.
- Develop best practices for synthesizing historic context statements and field surveys, including establishing appropriate registration requirements and integrity considerations.
- Review up-to-date methods – including the use of new technologies – for completing surveys and managing survey data.
- Using the real-world example of Beverly Hills, become familiar with the chronology and process from basic resource surveys, to context statements, to the preservation ordinance.
Speakers
- Bill Crouch, AICP AIA LEED, Urban Designer, City of Beverly Hills
- Teresa Grimes, Principal, GPA Consulting
- Janet Hansen, Deputy Manager, Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources
- Christine Lazzaretto, Principal, Historic Resources Group.
Documents and Downloads
- Program
- Speaker Biographies
- L.A. Citywide Historic Context Statement Resource Guide
- Burbank: Citywide Historic Context Statement
- San Francisco Modern Architecture Context Statement
- Walking Tour Pamphlet
- Beverly Hills Presentation