It's quite obvious that the developers for mid-town/near-town/Montrose/the wards have been sucking the dicks of their masters in the People's Republic of California. It WREAKS of San Jose, with sadder attempts at homages to SF thrown in for bad measure. Of course, Westheimer and Richmond through River Oaks is still hanging on to it's Rodeo Drive facade, but at least the damn palm trees look pretty with lights.
As I've said before, it's the worst mix of Texan-Californian...all the flash, none of the open-mindedness...all the flightiness, none of the common sense. Of course, what do you really expect from a city that has no sense of itself? Too high of a transient population and cannibalistic realty.
Me, I'm thankful for the old Victorian holdouts, the corrugated-metal art houses in Montrose and the Heights, and the insane mixture of slightly over a century of building that characterizes the inner loop...enjoy it while you can, cause it will always be changing. And you can never tell how. Houston is architectural embodiment of Chaos.
PS Thank God for Gotham and Metropolis! PPS Treemont can kiss my ass....
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The Californication continues
Date: 2005-11-25 07:46 am (UTC)As I've said before, it's the worst mix of Texan-Californian...all the flash, none of the open-mindedness...all the flightiness, none of the common sense. Of course, what do you really expect from a city that has no sense of itself? Too high of a transient population and cannibalistic realty.
Me, I'm thankful for the old Victorian holdouts, the corrugated-metal art houses in Montrose and the Heights, and the insane mixture of slightly over a century of building that characterizes the inner loop...enjoy it while you can, cause it will always be changing. And you can never tell how. Houston is architectural embodiment of Chaos.
PS Thank God for Gotham and Metropolis!
PPS Treemont can kiss my ass....
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Date: 2005-11-25 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 07:05 pm (UTC)Google Earth indeed seems cool, though I wish they had a version for Linux.
Hell, I wish they could come up with a dial-up version
Date: 2005-11-29 07:29 am (UTC)