The restoration of old buildings in major cities throughout the world often
involves numerous government expenditure. This money will bring more benefits if
it is used to provide new housing or road development.To what extend do you
agree or disagree.
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Every city has old buildings. Every year the governments around the world
spend large sums of money restoring them. Some people consider this a huge waste
of money and they believe the governments’ budget should go to building new
houses and roads, while others insist that the restoration of old buildings in
cities is well worth the money.
There are a host of reasons why some urban old buildings should not be
restored. To start with, the old buildings are no longer suitable for people to
live in, therefore they should be destroyed and give way to new buildings so
that people, especially young people in the cities have more living spaces.
Secondly, the old buildings can cause inconveniences for the city dwellers.
Since there is not a direct route through the old buildings, people sometimes
have to go to and off work by making a long detour around them, and in this way
much of their time is wasted. Finally, the old buildings may give rise to safety
problems. More than 100 people, for example, are killed or injured each year in
my city, just because of the collapse of some ancient buildings.
Yet old buildings - at least some of them - are significant historically and
culturally, and hence should be restored for that reason. They carry some
important messages about the city or even the whole nation. The Summer Palace,
for instance, is a perfect reminder of how the imperial family in the Qing
Dynasty in feudal China were living and so has great cultural significance. Such
old buildings, if well preserved, can become tourist spots and attract thousands
of visitors from around the globe.
We all need a memory of our past. Many old buildings do have historical and
cultural value which tells us who we were. We need to take good care of these
buildings and keep them as long as possible, however much money it may involve,
so that they can tell the stories of the city or the nation to our future
generations. Of course, the money squandered on those old buildings with little
value should be used to solve more practical problems such as housing and
traffic.
