Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Factory Made
Have you been to a plastic place... moulded in the factory and placed for bare function,usually ugly, no identity, no relation to context, one amongst a million others....like a mobile home which can be picked up and plonked anywhere; it would be just as out of place there too.....No? Then visit the smaller cities of America...you'll know what I'm talking about.
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why just smaller cities? dont you think wal-marts and the big malls also do just the same?
precisely! i do feel that most buildings don't have a character about them. they sit on earth like giant droppings. we are in a world that takes pride in the fact that the McDonalds in NY is exactly the same design as one in Sydney.
@ Anu...
Ur right...though i was talking about a city in totality...atleast they have some character and city scape to call there own...that's probably the effect of the high density of ppl living there. Like NY's graffiti and street culture...or the Chicago skyline or even Washington.
But the smaller cities...another story entirely!!
@ Speech is golden...I know, Vernacular is becoming endangered!!!
I lived in a po-dunk small town in NC for about 8 months...and this place really had character...i am serious...it boasted of colonial style houses that were 100+ years old and loads of black history...and the nearest wal-mart about 18 miles away...
then just before I left...about 2 months...there came in Wal-Mart supercenter, BEST Buy, Chillis, Applebees, and you name it...and really...the only ones existing around 20 miles radius...the entire city changed...not sure i like it any more...
@Anu..
Yeah...i know what u mean....It's shame really! Its either Commercialize or Museumize...or worse both together!!!
the results of globalized consumerism. all desires are common. all of them are available everywhere. unique is dead, replaced by the latest easily replacable, easily obsolete quirk of market driven fashion
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