More endangered neighbourhoods and landmarks.

I get physically ill when I see the proliferation of high-rise condominiums and construction cranes in Little Italy, Ottawa. Somerset Ward councillor Catherine McKenney is determined to obliterate any  green space in a prime tourist location. My family and I visit Little Italy and Dow's Lake--- the restaurants, the Absolute Comedy Club and the Tulip Festival. I have lived in townhouses right next to Carling Avenue for 21 years; and the Experimental Farm, Observatory Campus, Little Italy and Andrew Haydon Park are part of my soul, my geist, a German word meaning mind/spirit.
How many business people and local residents want to see:
---the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources campus turned into another Distillery District.
--land behind the High School of Commerce redeveloped by Ottawa Community Housing
---more residential towers.
--- geared-to-income housing on federal land at 933 Gladstone. An armoury was located here.
---a mega-hospital on the nearby Central Experimental Farm.
Ottawa councillors are elected to serve the people, not the real estate industry.

The American government is preserving the integrity of Little Italy in New York City, the neighbourhood is listed on the "National Registry of Historic Places."

  Richmond, British Columbia's Cannery Row is a National Historic Site of Canada, but the integrity of the site has been compromised by changes in land use. The Monterey, California Cannery Row is immortalized in a Bob Dylan song "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"; a John Steinbeck novel and the Nick Nolte/ Debra Winger movie "Cannery Row."

Grain elevators are a vanishing Canadian silhouette. Why is the Federal Minister of Culture not trying to preserve these irreplaceable landmarks? The Inglis, Manitoba grain elevators are National Historic Sites of Canada.

Dawson Creek, British Columbia  grain elevators - 1973.

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Books and poetry that inspired me:
The Greening of America - by Charles Reich.
I'm OK, You're OK - A guide to transactional analysis by Dr. Thomas A. Harris.
Books by self-help guru Wayne Dyer. 
The Celestine Prophecy - by James Redfield.
The Aquarian Conspiracy - by Marilyn Ferguson.
The poem Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, especially the words "You are a child of the Universe, No less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here." The 1972 hit song Desiderata by Les Crane can be viewed on YouTube.

The 1970 book The Greening of America awakened me from my dream-state and altered my consciousness. Author Charles Reich passed away June 16, 2019. (Photo from Wikipedia)