The IHBC Yearbook article by the renowned American authority on heritage finances, Donovan Rypkema, entitled ‘Incentives for the protection, restoration and maintenance of historic buildings’, has been re-published on the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki site, helping extend the reach of heritage-related strategies into mainstream construction thinking.
Donovan Rypkema writes:
‘You think there are heritage buildings out there that need saving, right? So how can that be done? Fortunately, years ago at a symposium in Austria, Mark Schuster and colleagues… made a finite list. They concluded that there were only five tools to save historic resources: ownership and operation, regulation, information, property rights, and incentives. Schuster subsequently told his students at MIT that he’d give them an automatic A in his course if they could come up with a sixth. They never did’
The author, Donovan Rypkema, is principal of PlaceEconomics, a Washington, DC-based real estate and economic development consulting firm.
Find out more about Rypkema on heritage incentives using the links below.
For PlaceEconomics see http://www.placeeconomics.com
For more on Donovan see http://www.placeeconomics.com/about-us/who-we-are
See Donovan Rypkema’s article on IHBC’s Conservation Wiki
See Conservation Wiki, and create your own contributions
See IHBC’s Yearbook details, and arrange for purchase and advertising
See the original Yearbook article
