A Planner's Role in Preservation (Commentary)

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Howard, J. Myrick
- Other Affiliation: Executive Director, Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina

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When I first started my job in 1978 as Executive Director of the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, as a recent graduate of the Law and Planning joint degree program at Chapel Hill, I constantly had people respond to me with either, "I was expecting someone much older" or, "what's a nice young man like you doing in a field like historic preservation?" What they were really expecting was the proverbial blue-haired little old lady with tennis shoes - or at least a gaunt pale man who looked like he wandered out of the library stacks. A sterling pedigree would be a given. Degrees in city and regional planning and law seemed strange. More than a decade later, I better understand the comments. I realize that there is marked contrast between being involved in history and in historic preservation. The people are different, the goals are different, and the perspective is decidedly different. And yet, many people don't recognize or understand the distinction - sometimes, even, professionals in the field.

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