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    Looking Back, Looking Forward: A New Look at the Historic Resources of the Maryland Port Towns
    (2008) Bowling, Matt; Carpenter, Jennifer; Dorman, Alice; Guzman-Torres, Zasha; Harada, Rei; Kockritz, Justin; Merrifield, Kelly; Stuebner, Alisyn; Vaughan, Jason; Konsoulis, Mary
    During the fall of 2008, the historic preservation studio of the University of Maryland’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation developed a heritage resource study for the Maryland Port Towns, a group of four individual municipalities located on the Anacostia River in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The client, the Port Towns Community Development Corporation, made it clear from the beginning that the study was to dovetail with their already extensive efforts for social and economic development in the Port Towns. The study that follows is the culmination of the efforts of the nine-member studio team. Titled Looking Back, Looking Forward: A New Look at the Heritage Resources of the Maryland Port Towns, the study initially developed from two principal questions: • What existing historic resources are located in the Port Towns? • What can be done to preserve, enhance, and highlight the existing historic resources located in the Port Towns to meet the socioeconomic goals set by the Port Towns Community Development Corporation?
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    The World Heritage Convention's Impact on Local Communities: Can We Utilize the U.S. Historic Preservation Approach for the World Heritage Program?
    (2008-05) Harada, Rei
    Many countries try to obtain sustainable community development by participating in the World Heritage Convention, particularly when they discovered that the World Heritage Program is a useful tool for developing cultural recognition as well as for addressing challenging problems related to over successful tourism. While the World Heritage Convention is not generally known in the United States, the country has recently increased their involvement in the World Heritage Convention after rejoining UNESCO. In this paper, first, I will describe how the World Heritage Program is useful for community development, but will also explain the World Heritage‟s negative impacts of successful tourism on local communities through analysis of a case study: Lijiang, China. Next, I will illustrate the possibilities for the future of the World Heritage program with the U.S.‟s renewed participation as a solution for negative impacts local communities. Finally, I will recommend the importance of historic preservation in terms of international cooperation.