Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urbanity has footholds all over the place, and preservationism has achieved extraordinary momentum. Cincinnati's city council made charming West 4th Street a historic district last year. Among the latest local projects: the conversion of a down-at-the-heels Renaissance Revival textile building into offices. The former Tivoli Union brewery in Denver, a pseudo- Bavarian fantasy, is a giddy complex of shops, offices, restaurants and movie theaters. The vast old Bullock's department store in downtown Los Angeles has been turned into the country's largest wholesale jewelry mart, and Houston's art deco Alabama Theater has merely exchanged...
The new attitude toward cities and old buildings seems altogether uncharacteristic of the U.S. -- delightfully un-American, in fact. Americans are supposed to have a deep distrust of cities and a Babbitty, hard-charging faith in the new and improved. Indeed, preservation on today's scale was an unthinkable Luddite...
But urban renewal had its rearguard critics, and vital downtowns had their influential advocates. The right laws were passed. Cases were won. In 1965 New York City passed the Landmarks Preservation Law, setting up a commission that could restrict any changes to designated historic buildings; a year later, Congress enacted...
Although the CUNY center originally included the Yale activists, Duberman said, it split over differences regarding gender discrimination and the preservation of gay minority rights.
Legitimate concerns of national security aside, Washington and Cambridge should not forget that the overarching concern of information policies should be the preservation of First Amendment rights. More than economic progress, our health as a society depends on free speech and academic freedom. If the Reagan Administration continues its short...