( Word Reader - Unregistered ) www.word-reader.com Should a city perserve its historic buildings or replace them with modern ones? A city could not destroy the historic buildings, the city should preserve its old, historic buildings The historic buildings for a city even for a country have a unlimited value When people destroy the buildings, they will not show up again and the historic buildings are record a period of history First, the historic buildings for a city even for a country have a unlimited value Those buildings show up in a specific time The time is the only thing could not go backwards Therefore, if people destroy the buildings, they will never see it and have it again For example, ShangHai, one of the biggest cities in China, destroyed some historic buildings in 1950`s Those buildings built in end of 19th and the beginning of 20th Most of those building are building by the foreigners and with the foreigner styles Not only on building like that but the whole street or the neighborhood In 1950`s, people were crazy, they destroyed the building, but in some reason, they did not destroy all of them and replace them with then modern buildings However, right now, the people in Shanghai are repented But all the buildings are gone Besides that, those buildings record a period of history I still use Shanghai as an example The people destroy the building in 1950`s because those building built in colonial time in China It records a very dark history in Chinese history However, in 1950`s the new regime just built up People not want to recall those histories by those building, so they destroyed them However, yes, the buildings record a period of history because these styles and the stuffs But the history could not be destroyed even destroyed the building ( Word Reader - Unregistered ) www.word-reader.com Please preserve the old, historic buildings Those buildings are the unlimited values for a city and they are the gift from ancestors