Poor neighborhoods that are ignored/allowed to grow with zero planning by the city government, eventually become a big enough group of problems that the useless dickheads in charge say "alright, lets fix this". The quickest thing to do is to paint soulless murals and bright colors on the small poor houses to give the impresion of doing something.
It's not intrinsically a bad thing nor necesarily counterproductive to attack the aesthetics first, but since the bigger solutions usually never come, it's infuriating. It's the kind of shit CIA larvae rearing centres failsons-lead NGOs do.
The virgin flammable suburbian mcmansion vs the chad favela
Minus the power lines, give it all a fresh coat of paint/stucco and that would look pretty dope I think.
Spread some public art and plant life around and I'm nearly there
Brightly-coloured bad urbanism is still bad urbanism
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Poor neighborhoods that are ignored/allowed to grow with zero planning by the city government, eventually become a big enough group of problems that the useless dickheads in charge say "alright, lets fix this". The quickest thing to do is to paint soulless murals and bright colors on the small poor houses to give the impresion of doing something.
It's not intrinsically a bad thing nor necesarily counterproductive to attack the aesthetics first, but since the bigger solutions usually never come, it's infuriating. It's the kind of shit
CIA larvae rearing centresfailsons-lead NGOs do.https://www.vice.com/es/article/el-problema-de-querer-combatir-la-pobreza-con-pintura-en-bogota/
Thank you. Please forgive, I didn't intend to imply aesthetics fix everything despite my comment appearing so.
Pff, relax, no problem