Assistant planner Harriet Harris updated council members on the progress of an historical resources subcommittee, a group of city officials, real estate agents and historians appointed by the council in 2014 to research the issue and create a list of recommendations.
Negotiators made good progress on the question of historical crimes.
From various Enlightenment philosophers he adopted the notion of historical progress.
Our tolerance – in contrast to the intolerance of many of our ancestors – is evidence of the concept of historical progress.
If Hitchens refused the label of conservative, it was largely because of his peculiar understanding of historical progress.
In the 1880s he began to conceive some of his basic ideas: ideas of historical progress, social equality, a world government, and the nature of the universe.
He wrote of Columbus Day that the extermination of the Native Americans should be celebrated as a fact of historical progress.
When Daniel Flynn, as Elena's elder brother Alexei, announces that the future holds only hatred "born of loneliness and frustration", he denies any possibility of historical progress.
Indeed, as we unpeel the onion rings of our towns and cities, they tell the story of how British homes express the tensions between progress and the reassurances of historical style.
