commercialized landscapes.

"80% of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading—the village shopping plazas with their vast parking lagoons, the Lego-block hotel complexes, the junk food joints, the freeway loops around every big and little city with their clusters of discount merchandise marts, the whole destructive, wasteful spectacle that politicians proudly call “growth.” – James Kunstler