Rivaling Perspectives: Discussion on Modernism, Dresden, and the Waldschlobchenbrucke

• Cory Holzerland, Presenter
• Dresden, was delisted as a World Heritage Site
• Elbe River begins in the Czech Republic
• Travels 680 miles emptying into the North Sea
• Formed the Border between East and West Germany
• Dresden listed as a WH site in 2004
• 2009 delisted
• 1990, new transportation plan
• 1996, open competition for designers of bridge
• 2000, ground was broken for bridge
• 2004, delay in construction
• 2006, construction scheduled to begin
• 2009, court decides tunnel would be more harmful
• 2012, Bat Guidance systems added
• Global Perspectives, UNESCO, ICOMOS
• National Perpectives, Party Leadership, German Federal Court
• NGO's
• Free State of Saxony, Saxon Higher Administrative Court, Saxon Constitutional COurt
• Political Parties
• Local Perspectives, Dresden
• modern: adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world and that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know. 
• modernity is a dichotomy between destruction and progress
• Rework UNESCO's definition for "Outstanding Universal Value"
• Planning for Preservation
• History is a continuum, and all that is solid will eventually melt into air
• Regional plans to build the bridge 
• There was a coalition that would favor environmental protection: Green Party, Green League