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Charleston Development Trumping Preservation?

Posted by: David Gest

30 December 2005 - 9:00am

A slew of new building projects have some worried about implications for the town's historic core.

"Is Charleston facing a bright new future, or are we -- as preservationists and planners and conservationists claim -- on the precipice of an era of unchecked regional development?" The article outlines a large number of development projects in the Charleston area -– and then questions what exactly constitutes the "Charleston region". Will "condofication" and "regional rationing" doom the city's historic neighborhoods, or is the development an appropriate expansion, both up and out?

Full Story: To Grow or Protect
Source: Charleston City Paper, December 22, 2005
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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