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When a building is declared a heritage site, the assumption is that it has been saved. Protected from demolition, listed on official registers, celebrated in guidebooks and tourist itineraries, it appears to have been granted a kind of institutional immortality. Yet the reality of heritage preservation is far more…

• What does the writer identify as the most immediate problem with heritage preservation?
• What does the writer mean by quoting David Lowenthal's observation about heritage?