Historic Preservation and the Local Economy with Donovan Rypkema

Historic preservation is rightfully valued for its aesthetic and cultural contributions to a city. But more and more the economic, social, and environmental contributions are being identified and measured. Join Donovan Rypkema for a presentation that will present evidence from a dozen recent city-level studies about preservation’s role in attracting knowledge and creative class workers, generating local jobs, providing walkable neighborhoods, and other positive contributions.

Donovan Rypkema, president of Heritage Strategies International and principal of PlaceEconomic. Rypkema has undertaken assignments in 49 US States and more than 50 countries. Among recent projects include studies of the impact of historic preservation in New York and Los Angeles, and recommendations for incentives for Modern Heritage in Abu Dhabi. He is the author of The Economics of Historic Preservation which has been translated into Russian, Korean, and Georgian and the Feasibility Assessment Manual for Reusing Historic Buildings.

Rypkema teaches preservation economics at the University of Pennsylvania where he received the G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching In 2012, he was the recipient of the Crowninshield Award from the National Trust. The Crowninshield is the nation’s highest preservation award and is presented for lifetime contributions to the field of historic preservation.

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The Lenses Speaker Series is in conjunction with Lenses: Ways of Seeing Buffalo and Its Architecture open now at The Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo at the Richardson Olmsted Campus. The exhibit takes a reflective, questioning view of famed architecture critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock Jr.'s 1940 exhibit at the Albright Art Gallery. In the 1940s, Hitchcock's opinion pronounced which parts of Buffalo's built environment had value, but what did he miss by today's standards?

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Lenses is presented by Preservation Buffalo Niagara, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (the future Buffalo AKG), The Buffalo History Museum, and the Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo and sponsored by Arc Building Partners, the Charles D. and Mary A. Bauer Foundation, the Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History and Nature, the Erie County Cultural Board, the John R. Oishei Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Preservation League of New York State.