Word: historicization
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Students at colleges and universities across North America have built a movement to respond to the rapaciousness of the apparel industry--the main beneficiaries of the present brutal system. With dogged determination, they have challenged hundreds of administrators across the country to take responsibility for the production practices behind shirts...
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One would think the creation of modern Los Angeles, which is what Hoover Dam allowed, would make that structure newsworthy. Actually, its historic significance is of more cosmic proportions. The first of the world's great dams, Hoover inaugurated an Age of Dams, which has spanned the past three-quarters...
Then, in the late 1920s, after a flood that spread the river 40 miles from its banks, the U.S. Congress made levee construction Washington's responsibility. Billions of tax dollars from elsewhere--probably tens of billions, in modern money--were spent constricting the Mississippi's channel, so its silt began...
In the U.S. especially, development moves out of town while perfectly good urban property is abandoned. Perverse incentives often encourage the trend. Banks deny mortgages in declining neighborhoods, and environmental regulations may make it more expensive for a developer to reclaim an abandoned urban site than to build on virgin...