Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In 1979, the Aga Khan gave $11.5 million to Harvard and MIT to establish a joint program for the study and preservation of Islamic architecture.
Armistead said Harvard would try to work out some settlement with community residents; several preservation groups were offered the two buildings--one an example of Greek revival architecture and the other of inexpensive early 19th century housing--on the condition that they move them from the site, he added.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)--a Harvard Affiliate--and Historic Boston, a historic building preservation fund, are negotiating a deal that would put a stop to hospital plans for demolishing its 90-year-old Resident Physicians House, and instead move the building to a new location.
Closer ties between major research universities and corporate America will ensure "the revitalization of our nation's economy and the preservation of our national security and way of life," Rhodes said in a state of the university address, the Cornell Daily Sun reported.
Some critics call him a slick promoter and his ideas superficial hogwash. To this, Sandra Hillman, director of promotion and tourism for recently resurrected Baltimore, replies: "So what? The urban environment needs some high-pressure salesmanship. Partners and McNulty have managed to meld preservation with commercial revival. They've...