Miss Representation, my most favorite misanthrope, weighs in on the demolition of the Lapidus Odd Job Building (subject of Unbeige’s very first Preservation Edition of Crimes Against Urbanity), and on preservation in general. A sampling:
…But good little buildings may not be worthy of preservation. They certainly aren’t to the folks currently managing such things. I might also hazard they aren’t even if the Landmarks Preservation Commission deemed it so. There are inherent problems with how ‘preservation’ is conceptualized and executed, and these problems leave us with a murky future path.
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