While I love DC’s charming old row houses, my eyes always brighten spotting a brand new glass building in town. However, it is where the old and the new stand beautiful together that I see and feel the city’s vitality.
Perhaps DC is pointing out a way for development in general. Development is a continuous process; I have no doubt that it has to be rooted in a place’s cultural context and connected to its history, but people cannot get lost in The Call of the Drums. All places must look forward and strive for a fluid transition to the future.
