โ€œDonโ€™t it always seem to go -That you donโ€™t know what youโ€™ve got till itโ€™s gone: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.โ€ โ€“ from โ€œBig Yellow Taxi.โ€- Part 2

โ€œPreservation does not mean merely the setting aside of thousands of buildings as museum pieces. It means retaining the culturally valuable structures as useful objects: A home in which human beings live, a building in the service of some commercial or community purpose. Such preservation ensures structural integrity, relates the preserved object to the life … Continue reading โ€œDonโ€™t it always seem to go -That you donโ€™t know what youโ€™ve got till itโ€™s gone: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.โ€ โ€“ from โ€œBig Yellow Taxi.โ€- Part 2