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Excavation with our soon-to-be-outdated techniques is needless destruction.

We should only excavate what is about to be destroyed.

( And we shouldn't destroy stuff just to put up yet another shitty modern building. )

> now Paris wants to soften the hot, bare square in front of it with trees and shade.

It's not a building.

It was a general point.