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over the centuries.
No other city in England has so much wealth from such a long and successive occupancy as has York. Perhaps this is true in part because the > Industrial Revolution, for historic economic reasons, largely passed it by. Now it is a good-sized chocolate manufacturing center, a rail center, and, owing to its beauty and charm, a tourist center.
The question was urgent after 1946: How could York’s historical heritage be preserved even while its inhabitants modernized and developed economically? Had a consensus not formed throughout Britain in 1967 to try to resist some of the destructive changes of modem society, York probably would be lost beyond recov
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