Funerals for Buildings

Revisiting my first urbanist piece from 2017

I’ve been meaning to write this piece since I wrote about “ghost buildings” and the preservation of old, iconic signs in redevelopment projects recently. But actually, I’ve been thinking about this idea for my entire run as an urbanist writer.

The very first article I published on any of these urbanist/built-environment/land-use themes was all the way ba…