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I agree, but what's considered valuable and what isn't is just fashion more often than not. And once the building is torn down, it's too late to reconsider.
by projectileboy 16y ago
I agree, but what's considered valuable and what isn't is just fashion more often than not. And once the building is torn down, it's too late to reconsider.
- palish 16y agoThat's a good point. I'm just wondering why an old building should be preserved at all. (Honestly, why?)
- arethuza 16y agoFor me old and ancient buildings provide the soul of our cities - providing a tangible connection with the many generations of our ancestors. Of course, it helps that I live in a beautiful and old city (though hardly ancient compared to some) - as I write this I can look up at a castle perched on the plug of an extinct volcano, parts nearly a thousand years old, and think that this is really rather a nice place to live and work. I suggest you walk the streets of Rome or Istanbul, sit in the center of an Egyptian pyramid or wonder at the stone houses of Skara Brae and then consider what the value of "old buildings" are.
- palish 16y agoThat's really cool. A city with a castle on a volcano? Which city is that?
- kenver 16y agoI think it's Edinburgh, it's built on an extinct volcano though. It's probably a health and safety requirement.
- arethuza 16y agoCorrect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Castle There are a few good reasons that the science of geology was pretty much started here :-)