Sets forth mandatory policies, requirements, and procedures for directing operational, administrative and fiscal aspects of the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) Grant programs authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended.

Excerpt from Manual for State Historic Preservation Review Boards The State Review Board must take an active role in the State historic preservation Office's planning process. Its participation could take many forms including acting as a sounding board for ideas developed by State historic preservation Office staff, helping to run public meetings, and providing comments on drafts Of planning documents. To the extent that it is aware of statewide preservation issues and opportunities, the Review Board should ensure that these are considered in the planning process. Also, if individual Board members have particular expertise in land use or community planning they may have special contributions to make and could even help the State historic preservation Office become part Of the broader planning network in the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines. Instruction and templates for recording, typologizing, classifying, and analyzing ritual or magico-religious material culture are also provided to guide researchers in the survey, collection, and cataloging processes. The bulleted formatting and topical range make this a highly accessible work, while providing an incredible wealth of information in a single volume.

Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part of urban planning in US cities. In order to approach these planning, economic, and social issues in the field of historic preservation, this book analyzes a variety of interdisciplinary methods, focusing on four selected historic districts within the central business districts of Philadelphia and Boston (in the north) and Charleston and Savannah (in the south).