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"BP - \"Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks.\" -- Mary D" <[log in to unmask]>
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Re: Neat freak preservation
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Ken Follett <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 May 2000 17:07:56 EDT
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In a message dated 5/24/00 3:14:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> Everything that was interesting, sustainable, alive and
>  messy about this community is gone.

XD,

Not ranting. I don't believe that histo presto for the sake of gentrification
should be an answer to the misguided social engineering of urban renewal. The
made up clean theme parks provides us a perverse sense of gratification
similar to cruising in a shopping mall. How much of the clean freakiness
comes about from the images we derive from TV set architecture?

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