General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

'Save the clock tower! SAVE THE CLOCK TOWER!!!'

The mocking tone suggests to me that some would like the Clocktower of the Old City Hall building removed from Victoria Park.  I don't.  Old building have intrinsic value.  All one has to do is look at the amazing repurposing of the ugly, old warehouses along the railway tracks.  If those old buildings were torn down we may not have Google, D2L, or any of the start-ups that now populate those 'ugly' buildings.   I'm all for new development but not if the past has to be erased.

The only intrinsic value of an old building is that it is a building. The problem is that many people seem to feel that being old means it intrinsically had heritage value, which I disagree with. Some old things are worth keeping for historical value, and some aren't.