Architecture Addiction. Getting you where you need to be.
When we were kids, we knew there were two ways to clean our rooms. We could (a) clean our rooms, or (b) shove averything into the closet and under the beds.
Choice (a) took a lot longer, was a little overwhelming, and certainly wasn’t any fun. Choice (b) took about ten seconds.
Guess which one we did?
So I can appreciate this methodology from a micro level.
But when China does the same thing, when China hides their mess – their messy shops, messy squalid homes, and messy people, by building a brick wall in front of them for Olympic beautification purposes – then I feel like the parent. I want to repeat the words our mother said to us so many times: “You can’t just shove everything under your bed! Clean it up!”
A mysterious notice appeared beside the shops on July 17, typed on white paper and signed by no one. It read, “In keeping with the government’s request to rectify the Olympic environment, a wall will need to be built around No. 93 South Tianqiao Road.” The next morning, several bricklayers showed up with a police escort.
Read the New York TImes article.
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