Not just Paris, cities are built on the corpses of their past selves. Go back enough in the life of any major building in an historical city and you're likely t

Not just Paris, cities are built on the corpses of their past selves. Go back enough in the life of any major building in an historical city and you're likely to find someone who thought it was an abomination that should never have replaced a lovely piece of architecture This is not to say that new is always better, to be clear, but cities are living things, sometimes I'm worried we're trying too hard to preserve everything for the future