So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Originality is really important.
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
The task of understanding the past is neverending.
I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you.
One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Nothing is important... so everything is important.
If everything is very important, then nothing is important.