lone_pedestrian (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lone_pedestrian) wrote,@ 2009-05-28 12:21:00 |
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Historic Preservation FAIL
"In its place will rise a new Old City, a mix of midrise apartments, plazas, alleys widened into avenues and reproductions of ancient Islamic architecture “to preserve the Uighur culture,” Kashgar’s vice mayor, Xu Jianrong, said in a phone interview."
A culture is not a style of building, a culture is much more interesting than that. It is a way of inhabiting what you have built. It is a way of thinking about yourself in relationship to those around you. You cannot preserve a culture without its people. Then again dispersal and disintegration seem like the point in this case.
"In its place will rise a new Old City, a mix of midrise apartments, plazas, alleys widened into avenues and reproductions of ancient Islamic architecture “to preserve the Uighur culture,” Kashgar’s vice mayor, Xu Jianrong, said in a phone interview."
A culture is not a style of building, a culture is much more interesting than that. It is a way of inhabiting what you have built. It is a way of thinking about yourself in relationship to those around you. You cannot preserve a culture without its people. Then again dispersal and disintegration seem like the point in this case.
