We have decided to let our cities (and schools) decay

On By mandersonIn architecture, building infrastructure, Design, development, Economics, funding, Governance, infrastructure, Links, Physical Environment, Policy, quotes, waste

By UpstateNYer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
“We have learned to tolerate decay, and ugliness. . . . Demolition by neglect is now our maintenance policy, and not just when it comes to things we have made in bricks and mortar; it erodes our civic landscape, too.”

–Philip Kennicot, “We caused the Metro shutdown when we decided to let our cities decay” on Washington Post

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