Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As Gorbachev is the first Soviet premier to visit the U.S. in 14 years, the rally "is a historic opportunity to tell Gorbachev that he's got to back up his policy of Glasnost by action in releasing the 400,000 Jews who will probably never get out unless we...
Preservation can set up a self-destructive cycle. When a historic neighborhood is restored, it becomes desirable and prices go up, and when prices go up sufficiently, developers think dollars per square foot, high- rise, wrecking ball. They wind up selling the view of a historic district from a condominium...
Yet the reflexive impulse to preserve everything, even the relatively new and banal, occasionally shows signs of getting out of hand. "People are just beginning to talk about ' '50s classics' now, which is a term that embraces some really appalling ticky-tack," says the British-born architectural historian Reyner Banham...
Hearteningly, the fate of reviving districts is not always black and white. Preservationists are not all chevre eaters and squash players. Among the thousands of tax-delinquent houses New York City has sold off during the past five years, more than half have been bought by black and Hispanic homesteaders...
Charles Harper, for one. Harper is chairman of Omaha's ConAgra food- processing company and may move the firm downtown, near the city's gentrified warehouse district. But he does not want to play along with the preservationists. He says he will not put his headquarters next to "some big...