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Preserving Process

Sometimes someone else says it best

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Addison Del Mastro
Apr 25, 2024
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“Historic preservation preserves outcomes, but not the processes by which we got the outcomes.”

I wish I had said this, but it was someone I follow on Twitter, here. That’s a really great way of distilling it. Historic preservation preserves the form of a place as it appeared at a particular moment in time—and often enforces that form permanently, with r…

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