protection usually begins with a list of buildings.
works well for monuments and badly for ordinary streets.
A row of has value as a pattern rather than as individual architecture.
Remove four of twenty and the remainder becomes a curiosity.
Economic pressure on such streets is relentless, because the land is worth more than the use.
Owners are rarely wealthy, and a order without transfers the cost to them.
That is the reason many heritage districts decay slowly instead of being quickly.
Transferable development rights offer one way out.
An owner who cannot build upwards sells that unused right to a developer in a designated area.
The city gains density where it wants it and keeps the street it values.
Administration is complex and the scheme fails where the receiving area is unattractive.
is the other route, and it demands flexibility from conservation officers.
A warehouse that becomes a library survives; a warehouse preserved as a warehouse does not.
Cities that insist on original materials and original function end up with empty monuments.
Memory lives in use, and a building that is used will be altered.