Call it a tipping point, turning point, transformation...
The blog spent Saturday afternoon in a very quiet part of downtown Winston-Salem, basically walking the boundaries of the vast site of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, slated for conversion to the Piedmont Triad Research Park. (The Piedmont Triad Research Park serves as the vehicle for the hegemonic lust of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.) There's nothing not to like about the switch from cancer-causing to cancer-curing, but if the Park succeeds the city will be utterly, utterly transformed. It's not a moment too soon to start thinking about preservation of the cultural landscape...
The blog spent Saturday afternoon in a very quiet part of downtown Winston-Salem, basically walking the boundaries of the vast site of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, slated for conversion to the Piedmont Triad Research Park. (The Piedmont Triad Research Park serves as the vehicle for the hegemonic lust of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.) There's nothing not to like about the switch from cancer-causing to cancer-curing, but if the Park succeeds the city will be utterly, utterly transformed. It's not a moment too soon to start thinking about preservation of the cultural landscape...
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