“Our most important responsibility to the future is not to coerce it but to attend to it,” observes city theorist Kevin Lynch. “Collectively, [such actions] might be called ‘future preservation,’ just as an analogous activity carried out in the present is called historical preservation.”7 “Future preservation” means that the building is not only built to last, but it remains always capable of offering new options for its use. Freedom to adjust and even to change direction entirely is preserved.
