September/October
2000
Shanghai
Rising
China's revival of its most populous city began
with Western monuments. Is its other architecture secure?
By Shirley Streshinsky
Human Nature
The Nature Conservancy finds room for people on a
protected stretch of Virginia's Eastern Shore.
By James Conaway
Iron City Icons
A new generation embraces Byzantine religious painting,
making Pittsburgh the center of an artistic revival.
By Reed Karaim
Suburb on the Green
Radburn, N.J., America's pioneer garden city,
is still a wonderful place to live. Why aren't
more suburbs like it?
By Allen Freeman
Much Ado About Almost Nothing
A modern knight rescues Mies van der Rohe's elegant
Farsnworth House.
By Stanley Abercrombie
Preservation News
Transitions • L.A.'s
Ambassador Hotel gets undiplomatic treatment
• Historic theaters struggle for access to first-run
films • Bargain Basement:
A Main Street Building in Sidney, Ohio •
A Manhattan Project complex looks bombed out •
The $4 billion backlog of work
needed on federal buildings is stagnant •
Clinging to French-Canadian culture in Maine •
Paintings of stilled life in
Richmond • A Sense of Cyberplace: The
Fall of the House of Poe? • The
ranks of heritage tourists swell with-who else?- baby
boomers • The Gettysburg tower falls •
Who's News
Place: Compared to Myrtle Beach, little Conway,
S.C., has a lot to recommend it. How come it feels
like a theme park?
By Franklin Burroughs
Traveler: Sifting through St. Augustine's pink-neon
present to discover the gray-stone past of America's
oldest city.
By Adam Goodheart
Landscape: Out of the Wilderness
Uncovering Beatrix Farrand's neglected design
for Washington, D.C.'s Dumbarton Oaks Park.
By Sheryl Bills Heckler
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