[Jasoncw]

No, many of the buildings being demolished are good buildings, and there's a tremendously rich history with tons of great buildings between all of the different movements of the last 70 years. They've just fallen out of favor. All of those older styles had also fallen out of favor.

If you go back to the 1950s and show people pictures of modern buildings they would respond with words like progress, civic pride, tastefullness, quality, healthy, and if you showed people pictures of prewar buildings they would respond with words like slums, abandonment, neglect, gaudy, obsolete, and unsafe. And doesn't that sound familiar?

When Jane Jacobs came around, she wasn't on the side of popular opinion, she was fighting to change popular opinion.