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Arrested decay
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"Arrested decay" is a term coined by the State of California, United States to explain how it would preserve its Bodie State Historic Park. A more common application of this concept is the preservation of war ruins as memorials.
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At Bodie State Historic Park, the structures will be maintained, but only to the extent that they will not be allowed to fall over or otherwise deteriorate in a major way.
Any building that was standing in 1962, when Bodie became a State Park, may be rebuilt or preserved as the photographs of 1962 showed them. By putting new roofs on the buildings, rebuilding foundations, and resealing glass that is in window frames, the State is able to keep buildings from naturally decaying.
Eastern State Penitentiary outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania uses a similar system, though it uses the term "preserved ruin."
Several buildings destroyed in the Second World War have been preserved in their ruined condition as memorials. These include part of the facade of the Anhalter Bahnhof and the belfry of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
Recently, the authorities in Vukovar, Croatia, decided to keep the old water tower in the city as it is found today, and as it had become after the war — gnarled by artillery.
The authorities in Sarajevo, Bosnia have also preserved the building of the daily newspaper Oslobodjenje to this day the way it was shelled during the Bosnian War.
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