How will the city of tomorrow adapt and reuse the city of today? I can’t think we ask that question broadly enough, and our day-to-day, property-specific incrementalism can readily overshoot the greatest lessons from history. A hometown just to illustrate transported me from Seattle to Croatia for inspiration about why we should think beyond limited geographies, time frames and lifetimes when we discuss urban redevelopment options.Recently, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Seattle-based Preservation Green Lab made urbanist media headlines (including Emily Badger’s Atlantic Cities story) using a report stating the environmental great things about green retrofits of historic buildings, in comparison with new, state-of-the-art, energy-efficient construction. A local church restored as townhouses joined their list of intriguing Seattle adaptive reuse projects typical

Split Is Some Accommodation Which Began Because Something Else Entirely From What It Is Today, Yet Eats In The New Clothing Of An Additional Age, More Juxtaposition Than Reinvention.