Word: preservationist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great change of heart. The change has been so complete that it is difficult today to remember how recently people were blithely ripping out and throwing away the warp and woof of America's cities. In only 20 years, marvels James Marston Fitch, an internationally known preservationist, "the whole balance has radically changed in our favor. I'm astonished at what a complete turnabout there has been in the whole climate of public opinion...
Riverbend Park is jointly run by the MDC and a local preservationist group called the People for River bend Park Trust...
...Harvard is proposing something contrary to what their own Design School set as factual parameters," said Harvard Square preservationist Gladys Gifford, Gifford recalled a 1984 Graduate School of Design study--whose purpose was to suggest strategies for limiting development in Harvard Square--which targeted the south side of Mt. Auburn St. as dangerously susceptible to development...
...dozen hardy restorationists, fighting the Old Tooth's extraction, caught the attention of the late Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. A shrewd politician and dedicated preservationist, she charmed the General Services Administration, which is the federal landlord, and enlisted help on the Hill, including the support of Senators Daniel P. Moynihan and Mike Gravel. Hanks, for whom the new center is named, once told a committee, "Old buildings are like friends. They reassure in times of change...