re: #53 dragonath

Disturbing news for historians and archaeology comes out of Turkey. Reports are filtering out that historic Byzantine structures have been bulldozed.

Turkey: Istanbul’s Historic Lettuce Fields Fall Victim to Urbanization

There’s a very interesting aside in this article:

Everybody knows about Gezi Park, but the systemic destruction goes much deeper. There have been further heavy handed actions, including naming a bridge after a Sultan who killed off truckloads of Alevis and placing an airport on a wetlands and migratory bird route. And a forest.

So Turkey is modernizing. Not to support this sort of activity, but how many historic/natural sites did we bulldoze in America and Europe in the name of progress before we even started to consider that it was not always a good idea?