yet to decide
I am undecided about the developments here on this shore. It was a bit scruffy, untidy, noisy from the nearby road. But it was well used, had more shade. You can't drive to it anymore and where that's safer for cyclists and pedestrians there is a conspicuous absence of the people who once would be here enjoying this place.
You see, it's been gentrified. I have few reasons to suppose this isn't the first blow towards apartment building north of here on the redefined lake edge, once a sloping shore, then further lockouts of general access. It has happened before! In the process the edge of the lake has been filled in, mature shade and landscape trees felled, the flat banks expanded, more paving added and the untidy masses of humanity dispersed. Pretty, it seems, is better for the few while the many now seem lost for a place of their own.
This doesn't seem right. The unfairness drives my indecision. What I do know is that I quite like this new installation of public art.
yet to decide
I am undecided about the developments here on this shore. It was a bit scruffy, untidy, noisy from the nearby road. But it was well used, had more shade. You can't drive to it anymore and where that's safer for cyclists and pedestrians there is a conspicuous absence of the people who once would be here enjoying this place.
You see, it's been gentrified. I have few reasons to suppose this isn't the first blow towards apartment building north of here on the redefined lake edge, once a sloping shore, then further lockouts of general access. It has happened before! In the process the edge of the lake has been filled in, mature shade and landscape trees felled, the flat banks expanded, more paving added and the untidy masses of humanity dispersed. Pretty, it seems, is better for the few while the many now seem lost for a place of their own.
This doesn't seem right. The unfairness drives my indecision. What I do know is that I quite like this new installation of public art.