On the afternoon of February 26, demolition crews began work on dismantling a 23,000-seater soccer stadium near the historic heart of Bukhara. The razing of this building is only the start. Under a contentious project devised by the government of Uzbekistan and dubbed Bokiy Bukhoro (Eternal Bukhara), dozens of buildings are to be torn down across an area of 326,000 square meters, enough to accommodate 60 soccer fields. A sprawling tourist center will be erected in that space. With Uzbek tourism officials laying an ever-heavier emphasis on promoting mass tourism, installing infrastructure to ac…