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preservationists

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  • noun Plural form of preservationist.

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  • It's a sad sight when a few people's wishes - those of the so-called preservationists - are valued more than the rest of the population ( "How To Kill a Hospital," Editorial, Jan. 31).

    NY Post: News 2010

  • Presuming some so-called preservationists drop their opposition to overheard wires along the streetcar lines, these things could be on the streets by 2012.

    DCist 2010

  • Australian-based developer AGD Interactive Studios consider themselves "preservationists," ensuring the once-popular adventure game genre is kept alive today, and those on current computers can run these forgotten classics of yesterday.

    ‘King’s Quest’ remakes now available — for free | Sync Blog 2009

  • Wasder -- I couldn't agree with you more ... but the LPC is infected with "preservationists" and not interested in innovation.

    Brownstoner Brownstoner 2010

  • So the best the arena "preservationists" can do is call for hollowing out the seats and tucking a new hotel, park, skating rink -- anything -- under the retractable dome.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Due to be completed in 2015, it is to include a 203-foot-high tower on Seventh Avenue that has engendered opposition from preservationists.

    St. Vincent's Site Is Rising Josh Barbanel 2011

  • "We need to put an end to the standards' misuse or misinterpretation, whether we do it through a best-practices guide with a large body of examples, or through revision of Standards 3 and 9," he says, adding that even some professional preservationists who are not advocates of traditional architecture "do see that there's an unfair bias against it."

    The Bias Against Tradition Catesby Leigh 2011

  • But many academically trained preservationists want to impose their inevitably subjective notions of what the architecture 'of our time' is.

    The Bias Against Tradition Catesby Leigh 2011

  • Randy Wilcox, who runs a popular Detroit photo blog called dETROITfUNK, chronicled the escapades at the Packard plant and defended 555's owners as preservationists not profiteers.

    If You Take Street Art Off the Street, Is It Still Art? Matthew Dolan 2011

  • The restoration work on the building brought a studiously neutral reaction from preservationists who have been opposing the development plans for the rest of the St. Vincent's Hospital site.

    St. Vincent's Site Is Rising Josh Barbanel 2011

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