When other cities were tearing down aging inner-city buildings and erecting towering new ones, Charleston resisted. It often was more hard to adapt old buildings for new uses, but Charleston continues to prosper because of those extra efforts.
Similarly, since 1999, Charleston has benefited from the play of the city's Commercial Corridor Design Review Board, which has reviewed the architecture of 850 new projects and 5 times that many minor changes like new signs or landscaping.
