Thesis: Danele Alampay

And the what?: Cultural Significance and the Local Landmark Design Review

There are challenges to the regulation of many culturally significant sites lacking in physical or architectural presence, particularly in the controls available to the city or county for the management of change that is fundamental to the preservation of these properties. Some of the barriers that they face can be linked to the tendency of preservation practice to fall on arguments based on integrity. As more of these types of landmarks become accepted into local registers today, cities are now confronting the problem of how to allow and manage change for places that did not have much physical integrity to begin with, or whose significance relies more in its continuous and evolving function or use by the owners or affected communities.