On 4/19/07, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
roofs, decks facing the ocean, etc. Compared to the dog-awful "colonial"s that every Garden Stater seems to love, these were the aesthetic equivalent of a Vermeer. Joanna however was unimpressed. In fact she was horrified -- partly by the gentrification, but also by the aesthetics of these buildings. This is not just leftists, in fact. Terms like "cookie cutter houses" etc are in common use, but they describe houses that are clearly attractive to a large part of the population.
Those are 2 different things. If you have to exploit and impoverish a large mass of people, I'd hope you at least build an Empire State Building or a Pyramid of Giza or a Taj Mahal or a lunar space mission out of it. If you exploit and impoverish a large number of people all to build yet another ugly-ass strip mall thats just pathetic. Both cases are morally offensive, but the second is also aesthetically offensive and therefore twice as bad.. -raghu.
