Word: preservationism
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Atget developed that understanding by prowling the streets in search of architectural details to photograph for his artist clients. His 1897 decision to document an endangered Paris coincided with the city's formation of a preservation commission to help rescue its disappearing landscape. Without official sanction Atget pitched in, setting...
Pessimistic, but nonetheless persistent. The effort to save Queen's Pier is part of a wider movement to stop the authorities from destroying Hong Kong's architectural heritage. The fate of the pier remains to be determined at a series of government meetings that could provide an answer as early...
Even worse, a left at a red light is not only grossly illegal and potentially lethal to pedestrians, but it may also metallically entangle you with a fellow road user. Even if you have no sense of self-preservation, the ensuing gaskets blown would doubtless be annoyingly disruptive to us...
William Kelso disagreed. Unlike his colleagues, Kelso, a specialist in colonial American archaeology who began working for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 1993, was convinced that the fort lay instead somewhere close to the brick church tower built in 1690, the only surviving structure from the...
But appearances are deceiving. This onetime deputy governor of an Iraqi province and two-time author isn't garbed as a City banker in order to project upper-class Britishness, but, he says, "to show respect" to Afghans. In Stewart's latest incarnation, as President Hamid Karzai's appointed reviver...