How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
Where is the actual evidence that strict historical preservation actually matters? The culturally important buildings tend to stay around whether they are &quot;protected&quot; or not...its really only at the margins where they do anything.<p>And those margins tend to be pretty ridiculous. Seattle, for example, has upheld historical preservation status on buildings that were completely vacant and had no discernible written history whatsoever. Things like old mechanics garages and derelict wooden apartment buildings that had already rotted through.<p>Strict historical preservation is nothing more than an anti-development attitude codified into law.