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There is no question that Canaday Hall has maintenance problems. But these could easily be alleviated with some simple renovations. To raze and then rebuild Canaday, on the other hand, would be to destroy more than just its exterior "lameness." It would consitute a waste of time and money, and it would entail the destruction of the tradition, unity and morale that Canaday Hall has come to represent for many of its residents...
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Government-sponsored urban-renewal schemes are bad almost by definition, since they derive from the bureaucrat's impulse to tidy up, to eradicate funk and chaos in favor of large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze-and- rebuild notion of progress has been overtaken by a mania for historic preservation, which is a great improvement. But preservationism can also tend toward the prissy, the anal and the monomaniacal and become a kind of by-the- book undertaker's approach that makes dead and dying downtowns prettier...
...opening on Las Vegas' neon-lit Strip, the famed Dunes Hotel has closed for good. The Dunes casino helped nurture Las Vegas' popularity -- and notoriety as a magnet for sharp-dressed mobsters. Its arching marquee became a relic in an age of larger resorts. Owner Steven Wynn plans to raze it and erect a new $400 million casino and family park...
...prowls city streets and country lanes for gems of the nation's "built history." And she is not averse to a touch of cloak-and-dagger. In 1976 she learned that the Chrysler Building in New York City was going into receivership and the owners wanted to raze it. She rushed to the city and slipped unobserved into the skyscraper. After a top-to-bottom tour, she saved the art deco masterpiece...