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Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas
There is no elegance of design in automobiles when today's vehicles all look far more alike than the industry was accused of producing in the 1960s and are functionally far less useful.
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I guess I'm just not ready to throw in the towel on the state of the world, of design and luxury. It's all out there, preserved in some places if not all, and in incredible new things, cars, houses, public building etc etc. Seek it out. (Like one's youth, the old stuff ain't ever coming back.) As far as today's cars go--functionally far less useful? More practical, safer, lower-maintenance, and more durable cars are less useful than a 1962 Cadillac, say? Now this is novel. But I'll stick to architecture...
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Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas
Isn't it exciting that one can look at a new home in Orange County and then buy the same or nearly identical home in Atlanta or the suburbs of Miami from a division of the same corporation.
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Like these century-old-examples?
New Orleans/Florida/Washington State
Atlanta/New Hampshire/Minneapolis
Dallas/Phoenix x2/Colorado Springs