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...other 10%, that feisty minority vows to save the neighborhood from the wrecker's ball. Yet even if Poletown were saved, the community would never flourish as it did a generation ago. Concedes Henry Michalski, a Poletown Neighborhood Council supporter: "Over the long term, the place would continue to deteriorate because the old people will die off and the young people have moved off." For many residents, however, Poletown remains very much home, and the shock of being so hastily asked to move out has honed their resistance. "The plant project had a note of finality to it from...
...surprisingly, house hunters turned to the city's 800 empty buildings, most of them awaiting the wrecker's ball. About 2,000 squatters have moved into 120 such structures, many of them in the city's old Kreuzberg district. At first, comparatively sympathetic police looked the other way, more or less leaving the squatters alone. But the settlement situation turned acrimonious last December when police, ordered by judges to enforce property rights of landlords, raided a squatters' building in Kreuzberg. Violent protests flared. Three consecutive weekends of street battles left 150 demonstrators and 100 police injured...
...personal command of the government, though he had originally said he would not, apparently because he decided no one else could be trusted to carry out God's will. Another Iranian ayatullah has observed that Khomeini, because of his long career in opposition to the Shah, is "a good wrecker but a bad builder...
Strider and the prince plummet to their fates in parallel lines. The animal prince in Strider is flogged into the ground in a vain chase after Serpuhofsky's faithless mistress (Burrell transformed into a heart wrecker of a woman). Strider ends in the knacker's yard awaiting the knife. Serpuhofsky, too tipsy to stand up, a prince turned slave, a man who once commanded 2 million rubles, ends up trying to cadge a thousand from an arriviste. In a moment of extreme poignance, the prince spies Strider. He remembers him and yet refuses to recognize him. Time...
More than 500 U.S. cities now have preservation ordinances aimed specifically at saving honorable structures from the wrecker's ball. A raft of federal, state and local laws provide financial incentives to adapt disused buildings to creative new uses. The U.S. Department of the Interior has boosted its funding of such projects from $300,000 in 1968 to $60 million this year, as much in realization of their economic potential as appreciation of their historic value. Old courthouses, railroad stations, firehouses, police stations, armories, ice houses, hotels, office buildings, factories, warehouses, schools and department stores have found a lively...