Partycypacja społeczeństwa w rewaloryzacji i ochronie zabytków na terenie Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki Północnej

A unique love of freedom, and thus an exclusive right to dispose of one’s own property as well as a tradition of a group determination of the conditions of any activity influence also programmes of monuments protection in the United States of America. At the same time a sense of national distinctness has got increased recently to such a degree that there appeared strong tendencies for the necessity to rescue own heritage. Some of the actions are undertaken by federal bodies; still, to a bigger extent they are done on a state level and smaller territorial units, mainly towns. They are initiated and organised by various groups, associations and municipal authorites. The latter wish to recover tax payments from temporarily abandoned buildings and also to revive complexes often situated in the centre of towns. An example of such action is Baltimore, while an illustration of joint ventures of municipal authorities and social organisations are New Orlean and San Francisco. The author discussed them thinking that to some degree they may be helpful in organising the participation of the society in works on behalf of the preservation of monuments in .Poland.