Society for College and University Planning
The Economic Upside Of Historic Preservation
Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan are neighboring college towns, well, "university towns." This article isn't specifically about the universities, but is a nice exposition on the value, economically, of heritage preservation.
"I cannot identify a single example of a sustained success story in downtown revitalization where historic preservation wasn’t a key component of that strategy. Not a one," Rypkema says. "Conversely the examples of very expensive failures in downtown revitalization have nearly all had the destruction of historic buildings as a major element."
Labels: campus heritage preservation