Christopher Howard, assistant professor, architecture and planning, published commentary on The Hill about the fate of confederate memorials.
..."Memorials are the provocateurs of the built environment. Those designed successfully capture our attention; through beauty, gesture, association and symbolism, they aspire to deliver meaning. They are civic actors as the most prominent expressions of a public’s declaration of values. Accordingly, memorials and monuments are, as cultural investments, intended to be “permanent” in order to pass heritage on to other generations."...
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