The readings this week seemed to all touch on ideas of inheritance. Whether by individuals inhabiting newly renovated buildings (Brainard) or researches attempting to engage with the history of a place (Holdsworth) or even assertions about what is and can be (Groth and Bressi), they are all a product of what it is we encounter in our urban environments. For me, I wonder what it means to engage with a place from different viewpoints. How do we understand a place if its history is masked, its origins obfuscated by amendment, adjustment, addition, subtraction? It seems somewhat futile to try to understand a place with this in mind, so how can we ever know? Is historical research even relevant, or should we only rely on anecdote a "what you see is what you get" mentality?