Why is everything so ugly?
Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/#rf1-34098
Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to turn them into . . . this?
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