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And on the whole, as many a comment thread on newspaper websites proves (even for the "respectable" papers), there are limits to online "have your say" populism before anyone with half a brain turns off. So, if one enters a discussion as the equivalent of an unseasoned freshman undergraduate in an upper-year graduate seminar programme...believe me, it shows, all the more so when you dig in your heels and assert your "right to your opinion".
If the actual building of a city worked that way, then any old yokel should have a right to build the malformed, out-of-scale mongrel neighbourhood eyesore and the concerns of neighbours, planning departments, etc should be regarded violations of "freedom of urban speech", or something. Especially if said yokel offers a "why me, and not that POS" argument, pointing across the street to sume Shim-Sutcliffey glassy thing.
Oh, and one other rule of thumb to keep in mind (esp. re these Minneapolis Masonic Temple-type arguments): for better or worse, McMansions are a reflection of a sort of "architectural discernment". Like, Versailles or Fontainebleau aren't any less masterful or worthy of contemplation for their plastic, misunderstood suburban imitators...
If the actual building of a city worked that way, then any old yokel should have a right to build the malformed, out-of-scale mongrel neighbourhood eyesore and the concerns of neighbours, planning departments, etc should be regarded violations of "freedom of urban speech", or something. Especially if said yokel offers a "why me, and not that POS" argument, pointing across the street to sume Shim-Sutcliffey glassy thing.
Oh, and one other rule of thumb to keep in mind (esp. re these Minneapolis Masonic Temple-type arguments): for better or worse, McMansions are a reflection of a sort of "architectural discernment". Like, Versailles or Fontainebleau aren't any less masterful or worthy of contemplation for their plastic, misunderstood suburban imitators...
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