One of the schemes that is now being reappraised is an estimated US$10bn aluminium smelter that Rio Tinto Alcan is working on in partnership with the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden).
But contemporary scholars have reappraised "dear Aunt Jane" as an independent and worldly-wise woman who wielded a sardonic pen.
The postponed upgrading of the A21 road near Tonbridge in Kent, for example, is now being reappraised, and a public inquiry is due in May.
The economy is also much more diversified: trade now accounts for half Miami-Dade County's GDP and tourism has jumped.Miami's reputation for crime, corruption and hurricanes, which lay behind much of the white flight of the 1980s, has also been reappraised.
(2011), reappraised her early life with negligent Pentecostal adoptive parents from the perspective of having searched for and discovered her biological mother.
It was not until the encounter with Western learning in the 19th century that Mozi was rediscovered and his teachings reappraised.
And in the 19th century, when the works of Bach and Handel were reappraised, Telemann's reputation was reduced to that of a prolific but superficial scribbler.
If Lowry himself has been reappraised as a result of last year's Tate Britain show, then perhaps Meadus stands to receive a similar appreciation in Artists in Tandem, a joint show of the two men's work at Southampton City Art Gallery, which has just opened.
Thanks largely to Kurzweil and the singularity, scenarios once viewed as diverting entertainment are being reappraised with a new seriousness.
Ben Thomspon, whose book, Ban This Filth!, focuses on Whitehouse's fervent letter writing career, said her legacy had been reappraised in recent times to reveal a ruthless, fame-grabbing and sometimes flirtatious woman who was ahead of her time.
Panned on release, Lou Reed's 1973 album 'Berlin' – documenting the downs and downs of an abusive relationship – has been reappraised as a miserabilist masterpiece.
