"Like the proliferation of economic poverty, aesthetic poverty affects us all. Our interaction with the impoverished environment of strip malls and burger joints coarsens us, limits our options, dismisses the subtleties of the natural world, and trains us to see nothing that is not loud, red, and obnoxious."
–– Brenda Case Scheer (b. 1951), American urban designer, architect, and writer, from The Culture of Aesthetic Poverty (Titanium, 1999)
via Sketchbook 4, 2008, p. 129
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