issue26 同主题11th

sjasminUID: 2213207

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."


During the progress of constructing cities, there rises a conflict between the precedence of old buildings and that of  modern plans. Someone argue that we should first take into account the modern development, but I believe that, it is the old buildings that need more attention.

Old builings, as mentioned in the artical above, represent a valuable record of history that cannot  reperforment. Wether you want to study architecture, art, or only history case itself, old builings can provide a ilt of help. Through examing the structure you know the level of construction in the old times, and via appreciating the painting, decoration of such buildings you clarify the trace of art from the past. Old builings are just like a giant history book which you read and learn, and they are also like an exact record which you look through and discover. Were the old buildings unfortunately one day disappeared, the door leading to the discovery of the past would shut, and we might find ourselves ignorant of many valuable things in ancient times. Some may be not have much historical value, but they embody the highest asthetic sense, while some may look apprently shabby, but they are relic of significant historical cases. A very ordinary small house can by any means be dwarfed to nothing in the glory of a skyscraper, however, if I tell you that this is where Van Gogh had ever lived, or if is a secret base for commanders in War II, will you still take it for grant that this house should be push down for the new building?

Very different from modern things, the old buildings cannot be restored or rebuilt once destroyed. If a plan of a new building has not been implemented this year, it may very well be carried out next year, and this obeynce will not bring much lost. But when comes to the old buildings, the situation completely changes: we do not have the ability to presicely inmitate an old style, nor can we have the ability to reconstruct exactly the old building. We are not able to revoke our actions, and we can nnot undo what has already been down. So we carry out the immuture and unreasonable plan of break down the old buildings in order to construct new ones, we are doom to an inredeemable guilt.

What's more, old buildings, because of their difference from modern ones, their unique aethetic features or their centain historical meanings, serve as an attracting tourist resources. An ancient temple, or a monumental can stand for a city, for its culture and spirit. Many people come to a city not for its natural sights, but for its historic relics. If these old buildings are all replaced by the mordern ones, such an attraction will no longer exist and a considerable lost in tourism would emerge.

Nevertheless, a society needs progress and it should never stop going ahead. It is a tendency and necessity that more and more new buildings to get into construction. As our territory is limited, many old buildings must get eliminated. However, such old builings are only refered to the common ones, like the ordinary houses or useless mills and so forth. Such kinds of old buidings are the majority of all old ones, while the valuable ones are only of a relatively small number. So it seems not very hard to make a balance between preservation of historic buildings and modern needs: and I am sure that we have sufficient intelligience and capability to fulfill this.

jiji8850_renUID: 2241791

不错，条理清晰，语言功底挺深，少数拼写错误。只是最后一段结束的有些仓促，词语使用欠妥，如we have sufficient intelligence and capability to fulfill it.在下认为fulfill 改成overcome 好点。
拙见，拙见。

sjasminUID: 2213207

谢谢大家!没时间了最后~~
还要加油.29号就考了