On the 14th, Congress slashed and in some cases eliminated funding for preservation in this country. Honestly, I can understand why preservation isn't at the top of the list for funding, but it's difficult to understand how job creation doesn't seem to include me. Preservation is actually pretty important and should be more prevalent. The problem is how we talk about it. Preservation isn't synonymous with museum, but there is a connotation associated with the term that makes us think "don't touch". What we need to work towards is conservation and sustainable adaptive re-use of historic properties. While in Europe I observed that there was rarely any new construction and buildings were never torn down. Europe's culture is very focused on recycling and that extends to buildings as well. Americans love visiting Europe because of the Old World architecture and historic towns, funny, we don't seem that enamored with our own historic structures.
That's my soap box.
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