Architecture, nature and humanitarian reform : the Buffalo State Hospital for the Insane / Francis R. Kowsky -- Richardson's Buffalo State Hospital and American architecture in the 1870s / Sarah Bradford Landau -- The architectural importance of H.H. Richardson's Buffalo State Hospital / John Coolidge -- The state mental hospitals of Maryland : a historical and architectural perspective / Lauren L. Bowlin -- Building institutionally significant histories : on understanding the adaptive reuse of buildings / Anthony D. King -- The hangman's new clothes : three histories of prison reuse / David J.T. Vanderburgh -- The good and the evil : the preservation of places with a negative symbolic image / Randolph Langenbach.

The challenge of adapting historic institutional buildings to new ones / H. Ward Jandl -- The importance of comprehensive planning for the reuse of mental hospital properties : lessons learned in Massachusetts and Connecticut / Gene Bunnell -- Testing the economic feasibility of adaptive reuse : Building "J" at the Oregon State Hospital / Steven L. Clay and William H. Harper -- Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary : these stone walls do not a shopping center make / Dennis R. Montagna -- The Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital : how "Glenwood" was lost / Tyler Potterfield -- From movie set to government offices : Building 10 at the Buffalo Psychiatric center / Barbara A. Capagna.

Dollars and sense : the rehabilitation of Dimock Community Health Center / Alisa M. McCann -- Bon-Pasteur : the conversion of the Good Shepherd Convent / Clément Demers and Robert White -- Adaptive reuse : how regulatory measures imposed on physical characteristics impact the reuse of school buildings / Christine Taylor -- The Snug Harbor Music Hall design competition / Mark A. Hewitt -- Restrictions on the concept of compatible use : the restoration of San Lorenzo's Convent, Naples / Francesco Domenico Moccia.