> In this town, the whole 60s redevelopment thing meant that they often
> just raised older buildings, thinking they were ugly or too old or
> something. They were replaced with parking garages, parking lots, and
> modernist, spare glass, concrete, and steel designs. There's some
> historic stuff here and no one really cared. i guess it was the
> modernist, futurist leanings of the time?
I think this is the root of JHK's hatred of modernism -- the spare unornamented look got interpreted as a license to build everything without a thought to appearance.
-- Andy