discouraging that more ugliness is coming even au one of the things Providence sells is beautiful old architecture and intact historic neighborhoods. Even if something is eventually built there is is almost sure to be awful, even at Brown new buildings are mostly ugly.
More generally, is this is a symptom of late stage capitalism degeneration where developers and businesses have no interest in a sense of place. There was a time when significant parts of the upper class built beautiful buildings, endowed universities and libraries, helped found national parks, now all those things are their target
I would hope people might consider ways to make demolition highly problematic for the stealth owners.
Unbelievable. Thanks for the article
discouraging that more ugliness is coming even au one of the things Providence sells is beautiful old architecture and intact historic neighborhoods. Even if something is eventually built there is is almost sure to be awful, even at Brown new buildings are mostly ugly.
More generally, is this is a symptom of late stage capitalism degeneration where developers and businesses have no interest in a sense of place. There was a time when significant parts of the upper class built beautiful buildings, endowed universities and libraries, helped found national parks, now all those things are their target