I have some understanding of your view. However, it often makes me think of living in a museum. Wanting to make the whole city like a museum.
But museums are full of dead things.
But museums are full of dead things.
I think i may have overstate the "save the old". Its not just about age, although we should save nice things that are old. Its primarily that "big" buildings (new or old) tend to be less human-scale than smaller ones (new or old).