Structured analysis of heritage, preservation and architectural history masters programs: identification of program emphases, exposure of potential gaps and development of a proposed interdisciplinary heritage and preservation masters program incorporating urban sustainability

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A structured analysis of online information about Masters-level architectural history, heritage conservation, engineering and construction history, historic preservation and urban history programs in North America generated comparative questions and an initial gap analysis concerning formalized education for historic preservation and sustainable development. Assessment was based on a number of factors, including degree of treatment of single-discipline versus multi-discipline subject matter, relative coverage of public and private aspects of the built environment, and inclusion/exclusion of themes and concepts such as diversity/uniformity, innovation/degradation and policy incentives/disincentives that may have influenced sustainable communities through time. The study stimulated ideas about program modifications that would embrace unexplored or under-explored aspects of natural and man-made heritage. The result of the enquiry was a proposal for a new online or hybrid masters degree program that attempts to come to terms with the tensions between heritage preservation, environmental restoration and sustainable development.

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