"This road is too narrow", "Why didn't they build a bigger path for pedestrians here?", "Who designed the centre of this city? There is always so much traffic". I think we all heard or said something along these lines in our lives. We like to complain about the way a city or a town was planned but we don't realise that it isn't the easiest thing to do most of the times. City isn't built at once. Neither it is planned at once. It means that it will always change and will have to be adapted to always changing requirements of the people. For example architects two centuries ago didn't expect that today there will be cars in such big numbers on the streets so it is obvious that the roads built then are not able to handle the modern day challenges. There are more examples like that so I think we should be more forgiving next time we'll be stuck in traffic in the old part of the city.
Does art have to be beautiful? In my opinion it doesn't. I think that some works of art just can not be beautiful. For example there are some incredible movies that are considered art but can't be beautiful because you can't really call a movie about some hard topics like war or murder beautiful. Another thing is that some pieces of art aren't made to look nice but for example to make people think about something or show them how our world changes. This is why In my opinion art doesn't always have to be beautiful.
We could be forgiving towards past city planners but in many European cities are older than Warsaw and are trying to solve the problem by e.g. restricting the traffic in some areas. London makes drivers pay a congestion fee to reduce the traffic in the centre. Parking fees in many city centres are prohibitively high to make drivers switch to public transport.
OdpowiedzUsuńYou are right about roads, pedestrians and stuff. We can take it to the next level: more patience in all things like it. Nothing comes from nothing and being grouchy won't help us.
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