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IN AMERICAN terms, Charleston (founded 1670) is an ancient town, densely packed and well preserved. Lately, though, the new is mounting a healthy challenge to the old in the South Carolina metropolis. Six major airlines fly directly to what was once a poky airport. An excitable entrepreneurial spirit, celebrating products made in the south, has infused the “Holy City,” home to some 400 places of worship. Design shops are flourishing: You see the placard for Glenn Keyes Architects, specialists in historic preservation, hanging from many an under-renovation piazza. And at Fritz & Porter Design Collective, in an old…