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发表于 2007-2-27 12:51:12 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE26 - "Most people would agree that buildings represent a valuable record of any society's past, but controversy arises when old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purposes. In such situations, modern development should be given precedence over the preservation of historic buildings so that contemporary needs can be served."
WORDS: 680 TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2007-2-27

Nowdays there is a controversial issue under debate that whether we should give precedence over preservation of historic buildings so that contemporary needs can be served or not. Depending on rational analysis and current develpoment of economic people would like to prefer the former as the speaker, while other opposite as me. At this poin I hold the opinion that we should consider more to the historic buidings, admittedly that if the modern needs are so emergency, historic buildings are also be prerior.

To begin with, those old buildings which have existed for hundreds of years represent a historical and ancient meanings of the local culture. Different buildings in different times and different places own different meanings which only belong to themselves other than anyone else, especially the modern ones. Such as the profound Great Wall in China tells us the situation in Qin Dynasty that how people fought against outsiders and prevented their countries, or the Status of Liberty in United States of America which is not only the symble of the friendship of French and American, but also the spirit of liberty that American people pursue all the way, say nothing of Pyramid in Egypt and Taimahal in India. If nowadays people break up them in order to gain a little benefit such as to build a more beautiful house to live or even some new skycapers to show how modernize is the city, lost is the wonderful works made by ancient craftsman which will never palyed again, lost is the special historic culture that modern people and their offsprings will never have the oppotuity to enjoy again, lost is the whole nation in a deep spititual layer what nothing will call it back.

Moreover, even in modern times, these historic buildings could still play an important role, other than usless things and barriers as someone claimed. Though these buildings could be used as architechetic buildings for people in present to live or work, they could still play other meaningful parts in their own way. Since this ancient buildings have their special meaning and particular characters of their own times, nowadays they are precious heritages to look up by modern people, and those old buildings could be used as places of interesets, such as Summer palace in China, Pyramids in Egypt, and many other famous buildings all over the world, they not only stimulate the economic and tour industry, but also raise the reputation of the country that will be much beneficial and helpful in future. In this way enormous benefits they bing to societies and nations may far beyond than some modern purposes in the originial plans, which could be used to replace the old ones.

However, what I would like to add is that when old buildings make a firecely conflic with the modern needs, sometimes we should consider to give precedence to the latter. Actually we are living in modern times rather than acient times. What we should do firstly is to enhance the economic, make the whole society and the whole nation richful and prosperous, then we are able to pursue the enjoying in the spirit world. In this way, some historic buildings are indeed needed to leave in order to meet the absolutely necessary demands. Such as when government begins to build some shelters for local people after a violent earchquake, or a highway is needed to pave in order to avoid villagers' lives got lost when they have to cross several mountains to get to town to sell their products, at such situation, we should break up some old buildings to meet these demands even they have owned thousands of years.

All in all, as we are living in this era of rapid social development of modern science and technology, as new things are coming out everyday, many old buildings are becoming more and more in danger. Though there exist some exception example in emergency that precedence should be given to modern ones, always we should do our best to protect them in the case that not harm the modern society fiercely.