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Heritage advocate Catherine Nasmith on how it’s time to make building demolition the exception, not the rule, reports Canadian Architect.
Catherine Nasmith writes for Canadian Architect:
With climate change and housing shortages being two of the top issues in Canada and around the world, how does it make any sense to continue to have the virtually unfettered right to demolish buildings in Canada?
… The right to demolish is rooted in outmoded planned obsolescence practices that originated in the post-war building boom…
With every new build, our debt to the environment mounts…
Thinking is changing. The Declaration of Chaillot, passed March 2024 in France at the United Nations Environment Program’s Building and Climate Global Forum, represents a major shift in approach. Endorsed by over 70 countries, including Canada…
… As your grandmother said, ‘waste not, want not.’
