Can I ask an architecture/planning history question?
How did the market incentivize “beauty” in the past but we have completely lost it now? What’s in our current business model that allows developers to not build things for humans to actually enjoy? How did people 100 years ago make tenements for lower income residents that were beautiful and lasted for decades?
I guess I just wonder about design committees - since we didn't need them in the past, so what's special about now?
How did the market incentivize “beauty” in the past but we have completely lost it now? What’s in our current business model that allows developers to not build things for humans to actually enjoy? How did people 100 years ago make tenements for lower income residents that were beautiful and lasted for decades?
I guess I just wonder about design committees - since we didn't need them in the past, so what's special about now?
local cambridge weirdo