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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:48:50 +0530
| Reminds us, what about trade union
| properties (measly as they are) in India?
| especially in the rapidly de-industrializing
| Mumbai and Delhi city centres?
in response to:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_456196.html
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My understanding is that the architecture of F.J. Osterling was inspired
by the burning of the Louvain University library by the Germans as they
invaded Belgium in 1914. The Louvain library was housed in the
magnificent 15th-century guild hall of the cloth weavers. Its
destruction was used by the Allies to stimulate anti-German feeling
because it was widely seen as a barbaric act against civilization.
As a labor historian, I often have occasion to bemoan the loss of
important working-class sites and buildings, the utterly stupid loss of
Chiodo's tavern in Homestead for a box pharmacy's parking spaces being
only one of the better-reported examples.
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cont'd....
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/letter/s_459332.html